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potential payment to kathleen mcdougal before it took place. so that is obviously at odds with the president saying that he learned about it later. still lots of questions here, lots of unresolved issues, and the white house, a stressful day at the lectern for sarah sanders, i think, given the number of questions which she really did not have anything that she could go to beyond the prepared statement of he has done nothing wrong, there are no charges against him. >> kelly, thanks very much for that. kelly o'donnell at the white house. michael cohen's guilty plea sheds light on the timeline of hush money payments made to women who president trump is accused of having affairs with before the campaign. this isn't the salacious gossip it once was, this is part of a pattern of trump. according to the new yorker, playboy model karen mcdougal signed a nondisclosure agreement with american media incorporated, the parent company
of the "national enquirer." she received $150,000 owned by trump friend david pecker to keep quiet about her alleged affair with trump. two months later, october 7th, americans heard the "access hollywood" tape in which mr. trump brags about assaulting women. later that month on the 27th, michael cohen paid adult film star stormy daniels $130,000 to keep her affair with the presidential candidate quiet. the next day daniels siengned a nda covering the affair and the payment. 11 days after that donald trump was elected president of the united states. he created fake invoices, the same day the president asked james comey to let the flynn matter go. on april 5th of this year the president told reporters he didn't know about the payments cohen arranged. a month later on may 3rd, he finally acknowledged he did know
about the payments, which cohen said were meant to affect the outcome of the election. to get into this, joining me now is attorney liz holtzman, the former new york congresswoman who voted to impeach president nixon. her new book "the case for impeaching trump" is wildly relevant and out this october. also with us is barbara mcquade. before i get into the crux of where we stand right now, barbara, i have to address one matter we just heard president trump talk about in his interview. this allegation that he makes that president obama did this, they are completely separate matters. the $375,000 fine that was paid by the obama administration were about campaign filing irregularities. this is about a conspiracy, a felony conspiracy to keep something of public interest out of the way of the american people to influence the election. the idea that the president is conflating those is ridiculous. >> yeah, this is just another
reason. in this instance this was an effort to cover up information that could be damaging to the campaign. this is criminal in nature. it involves criminal intent, which is not present in those civil infractions you just mentioned. >> liz, it's debatable whether or not the president, a sitting president can be indicted, but let's just go to 50,000 feet here. you and i have been talking about this from the beginning. i feel that something changed last night in terms of the legitimacy of this presidency. that's a thing that gets under donald trump's skin, but it's true. his presidency lost a great deal of legitimacy on the legal front last night. >> right. and i think the key is his involvement and the people around him. now we see the walls coming tumbling down. you have paul manafort, his campaign manager, convicted in a trial -- >> by a jury of his peers. >> jury of his peers. the judge was a reagan appointee. no question that the judge was very tough on the prosecutors
and here we have donald trump attacking that conviction and also saying that manafort, strong, brave, hasn't given in. >> didn't break. >> that's the wrong signal. what he's doing is saying don't cooperate to manafort. this is a kind of obstruction of justice and it's horrifying. the other thing that's happened is that his campaign, his personal lawyer has been involved in pleading guilty to a campaign violation felony, a crime. the difference between this and obama is not only what barbara mcquade just said, but the president was personally involved. you know that obama wasn't involved in filling out the forms that were filed for campaign finance stuff. >> but that's what the issue is here. >> the president was personally involved. and michael cohen has a lot more to say about the president. not only that he was personally involved in this apparent criminal activity, but there could be other things. he knows about the russia influence, he knows about
whether trump knew beforehand, there are intimations that trump new beforehand about the trump tower meeting. that's vital because that could be another kind of criminal conspiracy and we're getting very close to the issue of treason there. if you're cooperating with a foreign government to undermine our elections, this is very serious stuff. >> which is why, barbara, a lot of people think the russia stuff is still going to be more interesting than payoffs to the two women. the issue here, though, is that he is sending, the president is sending a message to manafort. manafort rolled the dice on the first trial. the second trial a lot of experts say doesn't stand the likelihood for going as well for paul manafort but the president does seem to be sending a message, hold the line and don't give up anything. which leads people to believe there's something to give up. >> i think we're at a critical moment in the manafort case. i can understand he might have thought let's roll the dice in the first trial and see what happens because i get a second bite at the apple.
if i were his lawyer today, i would be advising paul manafort to consider going to the special counsel and offering to cooperate in exchange for a global resolution of his cases. a dismissal of the washington, d.c., case and motion for reduction in his sentence in the virginia case in cooperation. i think robert mueller would go for that. even if paul manafort doesn't have anything thattin crimin ic the president directly, robert mueller's mission is to get to the truth. what happened with russian interference in to your election. paul manafort was involved at a very crucial time. he was present at that june 2016 meeting in trump tower. he was there during the time e-mails were hacked and distributed. did he know anything about that, was there any coordination? i think there would be great value talking to paul manafort about that. this is the moment where he has the goods to deliver. i can understand why president trump is very nervous and trying to send those messages at this time. >> a lot of americans are looking to congress to help out here. you were a member of congress during watergate and you remember the moments in which
republican members of congress started to fall against richard nixon. we're just not seeing that. >> well, we're going to see that, i think, as time goes by here. i mean it's shocking if you stop to think that somebody has now made an allegation, sworn in court to the fact that he committed a crime and that the president was personally involved in that. that a president of the united states is now being accused of committing a criminal act is very, very serious. we don't want to be there. nobody, whether you're a democrat or republican or green party or purple party, whatever it is, nobody wants to see that. republicans came over when the facts were just overwhelming. i think the facts are going to be overwhelming here too. >> the difference, though, back then is richard nixon was starting to affect their chances, because he was becoming wildly unpopular with the american people. we've got a problem here in that many of these republican members of congress are less popular than the president. >> yes, but also the american people are the ones who vote.
remember, richard nixon won in 1972 with one of the biggest landslides in american history. a year and a half later, those people who had voted for him and said, you know, i made a mistake. here are the facts. what's more important is the rule of law and our country, and not a single president and not a single party. the american people will see that. will everybody? no. but by the end, sure, nixon had a quarter of the american people, but three-quarters of the american people said no president is above the law. i think the american people will say that here too. >> liz holtzman, thank you very much. barbara mcquade. liz voted to impeach richard nixon. barbara is a former attorney for the eastern district of michigan. in the wake of michael cohen's guilty plea, many senate democrats are calling on republicans to suspend the nomination of the supreme court nominee, brett kavanaugh. i'll ask alabama's senator doug jones if he joins the ranks of his colleagues in that. you're watching msnbc. before you and your rheumatologist
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fully vet a lifetime appointment to the supreme court. the possibility of criminal withdrawn doing by the president, combined with existing doubts that brett kavanaugh believes a president can be investigated, demand further review of this situation. brett kavanaugh's hearing should be delayed. but here's what republicans who support moving ahead with the nomination process have to say. >> is it fair for kavanaugh to be confirmed under this cloud considering that the president's been named a conspirator in the cohen case? >> i don't see the connection. i don't think it has anything to do with judge kavanaugh. >> should the senate delay kavanaugh's hearings? >> no. >> because of the cloud that he's under now? >> no. >> why not? >> what cloud are you talking about? >> that has gotten zero -- you want to remove the president from office based on the guilty plea. it doesn't work that way. >> i'm joined by the democratic senator from alabama, doug
jones. thank you for being with us. >> my pleasure. >> so you've got feinstein calling for a delay of the hearings. you've got feinstein, schumer, shaheen and hirono cancelling their meetings with kavanaugh. you don't have a meeting scheduled yet but you had said you were going to meet with brett kavanaugh. are you still going to go ahead with that meeting? >> if the schedule holds, then yes, i'm going forward with it. i'm not going to cancel that. i've had a process that i want to try to meet with him as soon after the hearing as possible. we hope to try to continue to do that. i'm like everybody else around here on the democratic side of the aisle. i think he need to push a pause button and let this play out just a little bit. couple that with the fact we haven't got the full set of documents. i think it only makes sense. this is a very serious nomination. every supreme court nomination is. we need as much information as we can for a lifetime appointment. so i'd hit that pause button for a little bit and let this play out some. >> let me just parse that a little bit.
when you say hit the pause button, that would mean at the moment we've got scheduled hearings starting on september 4th which chuck grassley has said will go on. when you're talking about pause, you're talking about pause on that, don't start those hearings on september 4th? >> that's exactly what i'm saying. senator grassley asked for documents from the white house and the national archives said it would take until october to get the records that he requested, that the republicans requested. let's at least pause and get all of those documents in there. those are the ones that the republicans have asked for. let's get those. it's still not complete record, but i think that's only fair. it will give some of this other stuff time to play out a little bit. let the dust settle and see where things go before we move ahead. >> i thought it was interesting what lindsey graham said, he said what cloud are you talking about. the cloud obviously comes down to whether or not this president is in greater legal jeopardy than he was 24 hours ago. i think while there's a lot of debate as to whether you can indict a sitting president, there isn't a lot of debate that the president seems to be in
greater legal jeopardy after michael cohen named him as a co-conspirator in the election matter. so what brett kavanaugh has to say about how you deal with presidents who are under a cloud of suspicion i think is more important than senator graham gave it credit for being. >> well, i think that's true. certainly he is -- the president is under a cloud. everything that happened today were real bombshells. and it is certainly undermining the presidency at this point. we need to see how this goes. you can't ever determine where this will end up. but i do think it raises the stakes a good bit on that portion of the kavanaugh record. people need to examine all aspects of it. people have been focused on it to begin with, but now i think the stakes are raised. >> senator doug jones, thank you for joining us, sir. >> my pleasure, thank you. let's have a quick look at the east room of the white house where in just a few minutes john a. chapman will receive the
posthumous medal of valor. i know some of you tweet me you're frustrated when we go to the white house for events. i will beg your indulgence when it comes to medal of honor recipients. these are american heroes who do deserve your time. lester holt joins me next to talk about his interview with chapman's wife. you're watchings in nbc. hi i'm joan lunden.
this just in, investigators in new york state have subpoenaed michael cohen as they look into possible crimes committed by the trump foundation. this is according to the associated press which cites a spokesperson for the governor's tax department. nbc news is working to confirm this subpoena. as the a.p. reports, cohen could be a significant source of information for state investigators who are looking into president trump or his charity broke state law or lied about their tax liability. an important note here, anyone charged with a state crime cannot be pardoned by the president. any minute now, president trump is expected to presenting the medal of honor, our nation's highest military award, to a man who was left behind by his unit in afghanistan because they thought he was dead. only later did they learn he was still alive and continued to fight alone for more than an hour. before air force tech sergeant john chapman died of his injuries, he killed two al qaeda fighters, including one in
hand-to-hand combat. this was in march of 2002. the investigation into what happened took more than two and a half years and involved videos like this one from air force -- from the air force from drones that were flying overhead. sergeant chapman was embedded with s.e.a.l. team 6, the same unit that killed osama bin laden. today sergeant chapman's mother and his widow will receive the honor on the sergeant's behalf. nbc nightly news anchor lester holt joins me now. lester spoke with the sergeant's widow to talk about what this ceremony means to their family. lester, sometimes our viewers don't like to stick around when we go to hear the president speak, but the exception must be made for medal of honor recipients. >> yeah, this is a story that has been in the making since 2002. they know that he was killed on that mountain top and only later by taking old technology and overlaying new technology, enhancing those predator drone videos. you saw in that video they were able to highlight chapman, see his movements and realize at one
point he was shot down and appeared not to be moving but as the rest of his team is driven off this mountain under withering enemy fire, he gets back up and goes back at it, even defending another helicopter coming in with reinforcements. so they have watched this unfold, knowing he was a hero, but only realizing in the last few years the extent of that heroism. i spoke with valerie, his wife, who you'll be seeing shortly here receiving this. we talked about this day and this moment. >> have you thought about what it's going to be like to formally accept the medal of honor on john's behalf? >> it's going to be surreal, humbling, exciting. there's just a plethora of emotions that i think will run through my head when i'm actually handed that medal. i mean obviously i wish to god he'd be here getting it in person. but it's going to be a very proud moment for our special task community and the nation.
>> talk about that special community. as you accept it, do you want people to keep in mind folks like john who are still doing that job? >> yes. people need to realize that our men and women are still defending us in every corner of the globe right now. just because we don't have lots of casualties and big battles going on anymore, they are still out there fighting every day. and we've forgotten about it. >> i'm so glad she said that because we do lose sight of the fact there are thousands, just in afghanistan alone and in other places in the world. this is a big deal for a number of reasons. this will be the first medal of honor recipient from the u.s. air force in about 50 years. >> and he actually got the air force cross, which is second to the medal of honor, but the former air force secretary, deborah james, recommended he be upgrade on the strength of that video, the fact that they saw what more happened that they didn't even know.
>> this was a joint special operations team. i think at the heart of it was s.e.a.l. team 6 but they'll go in with an air force air controller. >> and that circle by the way is chapman. >> they believe that's him. they did this not only from the drone imagery but the reports of those on the ground, the radio calls. they could begin to piece together where he was so that's -- this is, again, technology only the last couple of years that allowed them to do this. his job in these cases had things gone as they expected, if they need air cover here or a bomb planted over here, he gets on the horn and they bring in the air cover. so although they are not s.e.a.l.s, they are among the elite of the u.s. air force along with the rangers and other special ops communities often would work together on missions like this. >> what a remarkable story. thanks for being with us for this. >> of course. >> you can see much more of lester's interview tonight on nightly news with lester holt here on nbc. sergeant john chapman joins a group of about 3,400 people, an
elite group who have received america's highest military honor since the award was created in 1861. joining me now is, as lester said, another member of that elite group, msnbc military analyst, retired colonel jack jacobs. jack, you're with me for every one of these and you never fail to feel the honor that is bestowed upon not just them but really the military at large. people who are in our services at large who don't get these roi recognitions. it's almost like each one of these is about everybody who fights in silence. >> that's what every recipient will tell you, he doesn't wear it for himself, he wears it for all those who can't. here's a story that was told to me by bob carey, medal of honor recipient, used to be governor of nebraska, lost his leg in vietnam, navy s.e.a.l. somebody once asked him what does it take to get a medal of honor? well, you have to do something, people have to see it, they have
to be able to write and they can't hate you. so think about all the people who fought val yaniantly and no saw it, there was nobody to witness it or the paperwork got lost accidentally or on purpose and you realize that all the recipients recognize the fact that they represent all those who can't wear it. >> so for each one of these 3,000 plus people, there are so many more who did these things, who die in silence sometimes, who fight in silence. so it is important, and this is sort of what i was sharing with my viewers, it's important that we pause and we listen to these stories very fully. this man, john chapman, he is -- he was a combat controller. he served with the 24th special tactics squadron, pope air force at the time of his death. the stories have a similarity to them. there's a selflessness and a fearlessness in the face of the ultimate danger that often would result in death. >> well, if you're in a very
difficult situation and there are lots of people who are ardently trying to kill you and your comrades, and you're in a situation where you can do something, you do it. what goes through your mind is a lot of things, but one of them is if i were in a similar situation, they would do the same for me. we're all in it together. like benjamin franklin once opined, we either hang together or we will surely hang separately. you're in a difficult situation. we do fight for the country. we do fight to accomplish the mission. most of all in different circumstances, we fight for each other. >> and that is the remarkable part, that these stories when you hear about them, they're always somebody who goes back in when sometimes there's another option. in many of these cases they might have been able to do something else to end up alive or to not be injured, but they take that extra risk. an it's not something that we -- i fear that we stop appreciating this over time, that there are still people fighting with an
american flag on their sleeve in places that we can't name and in many places can't find on a map. >> lester mentioned it. we have thousands of people just in afghanistan alone, still. >> 17 years. >> 17 years. don't forget that this action tack place, what, 16 years ago. we have people all across the globe doing all kinds of things to make sure that we stay free, that we are a bullwart against intrusions. we have people in subsaharan africa, in asia, all trying to keep people free to take care of themselves so we won't have to go there in large numbers. we're going to be frankly at it for a lot longer. >> colonel, stay with me. we're minutes away from the start of the ceremony. we will take you there as soon
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>> for those who desire, may you join me now in prayer. holy father, we thank you for this day, for this national recognition and for technical sergeant john chapman. lord, we enter this esteemed ceremony with hearts filled with grief and pride. our grief stems from the pain of john's sacrifice along with six other courageous americans that lost their lives in noble service to our nation in the cause of human freedom and dignity. our pride stems on this day focused upon the man you created, gifted, and empowered with an unconventional resolve to operate selflessly in protecting his family, his teammates, and the world from the evil of terrorism. we thank you, lord, for the
opportunity to honor john chapman with america's highest decoration for his heroic valor, to honor the enduring sacrifice his family carries deeply within their hearts, and to honor the legacy, inspiration that john has infused into the mission, the leadership and the operations of air force special tactics. lord, your just intent of overcoming evil with good in this world through human agency found fearless expression in john, even in the face of death so others may live. we thank you for john. we thank you for his family. we thank you for his unforgettable life and love shaped by your very spirit. father, as we move forward this day, may your presence be tangibly known to john's precious family. as we move forward, may john's sacrifice motivate selfless duty to you, to country, and to humanity. and as we move forward, may we
give thanks for our great nation, our great military and our great liberties that rest upon the bravery and blood of selfless patriots like technical sergeant john chapman. to this end we pray, amen. >> thank you very much. please be seated, thank you. thank you, chaplain, very well done. beautiful. we're honored to be joined by members of congress, military leaders, distinguished guests from all across our nation. i want to recognize secretary of the air force, heather wilson. thank you, heather. thank you. air force chief of staff david goldfein. david, thank you. it's been 19 years, right, for the air force to get the congressional medal of honor, so congratulations. it's a long time. very deserving. air force undersecretary matthew
donovan, air force vice chief of staff steven wilson and chief master sergeant of the air force, kathleen wright. i also want to thank va secretary robert wilkie for joining us. you are doing a great job. the vets are very happy. there's been a lot of great reports, thank you very much. along with senators john bozeman, richard blumenthal, bob casey, chris murphy and pat toomey and representative matt gaetz and john larson. thank you all for being here very much. thank you all very much, appreciate it. we're gathered together this afternoon to pay tribute to a fallen warrior, a great warrior. technical sergeant john chapman, and to award him our nation's highest and most revered military honor. would you all please join me in
welcoming a wonderful family that i just met in the oval office, the chapman family. thank you. please stand up. [ applause ] and to his beautiful wife, valerie, who agrees that he was a very brave man right from the beginning. right? you knew that. i know this day has truly brought special meaning. exactly 26 years ago, you married john. today is our great honor to share his incredible story with the world, so thank you very much, valerie, appreciate it. and your daughters, madison and
brianna, we award your dad the congressional medal of honor. i know he's looking down on you right now from heaven, proud of this day, but even more proud of the incredible young women that you have both become. it's great to know you. great to have met you, thank you. we're also grateful to be joined by john's wonderful mom, terry, his sister, lori, his brother, kevin, and valerie's parents, rita and jim novak. thank you all for being here. a very great honor. [ applause ] although she could not be here today, somebody that john loved very much, his sister, tammy. so please give our regards. thank you. i also want to recognize jack
souza, john's friend and combat control teammate, who is still recovering from a recent severe injury. jack, thank you for your noble service. thank you very much, we appreciate it. thank you. thank you, jack. appreciate it. it looks like you're doing well. doing well? good. thank you, jack. finally, we salute the five congressional medal of honor recipients who join us. woody williams, harvey barnham, edward byers, brian thacker and britt slabinski. please stand. please. brave people. three months ago i awarded the medal of honor to britt for his
heroic actions in the same battle we are remembering today. john chapman grew up in windsor locks, connecticut. from a very young age john was determined to protect those in need. in kindergarten, john noticed that his classmate, bill brooks, was being bullied. as bill says, john stepped in and saved me. in his high school yearbook, john quoted these words. give yourself before taking of someone else. that's very far-sighted. john lived by that motto every single day. everybody that knew him said that's the way he lived. two years after he graduated high school, john enlisted in the united states air force. he was among the elite few to complete air force special tactics training, one of the most rigorous training programs in all of the military. john became an expert in
deploying undetected onto the battlefield to set up airfields and direct fire support. now john will become the first special tactics airman to receive the congressional medal of honor. john met valerie in winber, pennsylvania, while training with the army. that was a big day. good day, right? they married in 1992 and soon their love grew into a beautiful family. whenever john was home, he immediately took on dad duty, reading to the girls, playing with them and even building an amazing swing set. do you remember that? that's a long time ago, swing set. soon after the terror attacks of september 11th, john volunteered to deploy to afghanistan. he walked into his superiors' office and said i need to go.
in one of the most harrowing engagements of operation enduring freedom, john was part of a highly trained team on a combat mission to establish a secure position on the peak of a mountain. in the early morning of march 4th, 2002, john and his teammates were preparing to land onto the mountain when their helicopter was struck by heavy machine gunfire and a rocket-propelled grenade. they were under serious attack. as the helicopter lurched away, petty officer first class neil roberts was flung out of the aircraft and onto the top of the mountain. as the helicopter crash landed into the valley below. it was a horrific crash. the team survived the crash and without hesitation, they volunteered to return to the mountain. they want it to get neil.
they landed into a deep snow and heavy machine gunfire coming from three different directions. couldn't even see, so many bullets. at over 10,000 feet, they fought the enemy at the highest altitude of any battle in the history of the american military. john chapman was the first to charge up the mountain toward the enemy. he killed two terrorists and cleared out the first bunker. john left the safety of the first bunker to fire a second enemy grenade at another bunker. as john fired on the second bunker, he was shot and fell to the ground and lost consciousness. even though he was mortally wounded, john regained consciousness and continued to fight on, and he really fought. we have proof of that fight. he really fought. good genes. you have good genes. he immediately began firing at the enemy, who was bombarding
him with machine gunfire and rocket-propelled grenades. despite facing overwhelming force, john brave low and fiercely battled on for an hour another american quick reaction force helicopter approached. john engaged the enemy and provided covering fire in an attempt to prevent the enemy from shooting down our soldiers, our airmen, and that helicopter. in this final act of supreme courage, john gave his life for his fellow warriors. through his extraordinary sacrifice, john helped save more than 20 american service members, some of whom are here today. and i'd like to introduce them. sergeant major matthew la frenz. please stand up. thank you, sir.
sergeant major raymond de pauli. thank you, raymond. special tactics major gabriel brown. thank you. along with his team leader master chief brit slobinski. thank you. thank you all. and we also remember the six others who, along with john, gave their lives on that snowy, really, really cold afghan night. petty officer first class neil roberts, specialist mark anderson, sergeant bradley crose, senior air man jason cunningham, technical sergeant philip svitak, and corporal matthew commons. our nation is rich with blessings, but our greatest
blessings of all are the patriots like john and all of you that just stood and frankly many of the people in this room. i exclude myself and a few of the politicians. who like john carry our freedom on their shoulders, march into the face of evil, and fight to their very last breath so that we can live in freedom and safety and peace. now it is my privilege to ask valerie to join me on stage to accept the congressional medal of honor on behalf of the hero she loved and the hero our nation will forever remember, technical sergeant john chapman. thank you. please. please, valerie. thank you. would the military aide please
come forward and read the citation? thank you. >> the president of the united states of america has awarded in the name of congress the medal of honor posthumously to technical sergeant john h. chapman for risk of life above the call of duty. technical sergeant john a. chapman distinguished himself by extraordinary heroism as an air force special tactics combat controller attached to i a navy, sea, air and land seal team, conducting reconnaissance operations in afghanistan in 2002. the helicopter was ambushed causing a teammate to fall into an entrenched group of combat ants below. the team voluntary reasserted onto the snow capped mountain into the heart of a known enemy
strong hold to rescue one of their own. without regard for his own safety, sergeant dhap man immediately engaged moving in the direction of the closest enemy position despite coming under heavy fire from multiple directions. he fearlessly charged an enemy bunker up a steep incline in thigh-deep snow and into hostile fire directly engaging the enemy. upon reaching the bunker, sergeant chapman assaulted and cleared the position killing all enemy occupants. with complete disregard for his own life, sergeant chapman deliberately moved from cover only 12 meters from the enemy and exposed himself once again to attack a second bunker from which an implaced machine gun was firing on his team. in the line of intense fire, sergeant chapman was struck and injured by enemy fire. despite severe mortal wounds, he continued to fight relentlessly, sustaining a violent engagement with multiple enemy personnel before making the ultimate sacrifice.
by his heroic actions and extraordinary valor, sack fightsing his life for the life of his teammates, technical sergeant chapman upheld the highest traditions of military service and reflected great credit upon himself and the united states air force. [ cheers and applause ]
skills so others may live. as we conclude, may john's family be covered with your lavish love and peace. may the uniformed sons and daughters of america know your empowerment and protection. and may you hasten the day, oh, lord, where war will be no more. for your glory we pray, amen. >> thank you.
actually did. and there's always a story of someone who did something extra. maybe they could have stayed hidden. maybe they could have gotten away, but they don't. >> what motivates people is they're with their comrades. a brief story. a friend of mine enlisted in the marine corps, lied about his age. he was 16 years old. wound up north of the -- by the dmz, pace on during the tet offensive, very bad place to be. one of eight marines in a squad. they're outside the wire. squad lead is a 20-year-old marine with responsibility for the other seven guys. they get into a fire fight. some of the marines are wounded. one of them badly, turns out mortally wounded outside the wire. rushes through a hail of fire to collect his wounded marine. brings him back to safety and dying marine's last words to his 20-year-old squad leader were, i knew you'd come for me. it's that kind of devotion, not
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interesting part of the president's answer to ainslie earhart's question, that hasn't played in that portion that you aired there, shep, where the president said this was not a campaign contribution, because it wasn't the campaign that paid it, it was me. and i have tweeted about that in the past. now, you remember, the president put an awful lot of his own money into the campaign. so i asked sarajevo hah huckabee sanders how did the president dlinity what was going to the campaign and what might have gone to other people for campaign purposeles. listen in here. >> how do you draw the line between what was a campaign contribution and what might have been a payment to somebody for other purps. >> secretary sanders: i'm not going to get into the back and forth of the legal part of. this i would refer to you the president's outside counsel 678 as i told cecilia, what i can tell you is what the president has stated a number of times, he did nothing wrong, there are no charges against him, just because michael cohen has made a deal doesn't mean anything with regards to the president. >> so, again, the president says
americans. >> even if the president were to be impeached by a dem xwratly led congress we see a replay of 1999 per the republican controlled house voted on articles of impeachment for president clinton but the senate did not convict. takes two-thirds of the senate. unlikely according to everyone i talk to that that could happen. michael cohen's attorney told me that this is just the beginning of the process for davis that he's willing to talk to investigators about the true nature of his relationship with donald trump, things that might have transpired during that relationship. cohen has set up a go fund me page which is so far attracted $54,000. that's about one-tends of what they're looking for -- 1/10 of what they look for. >> shepard: cohen implicated the president directly in a crime. is there a noticeable sense of change in demeanor there, or was
this expected? >> i think it really was expected. here's a guy who famously and it's been reported many, many times said that he would take a bullet for the president. then that interview with george step no loss suggested that his main goal was to protect his family and his country. i talked to lanny davis about the evolution that cohen went through. it seems as though he just decided that a world of hurt was going to come down on him and it was time that he needed to say something about president trump to save his own hide. but lanny davis said something very interesting, he said when he saw president trump sort of defer to vladimir putin on this issue of russian meddling in the campaign, that was the last straw and he said to lanny davis, let's go forward with all of this. >> shepard: fascinating point in history. john roberts at the white house writing the first draft. the president's former fixer michael cohen has more secrets to spill about his ex-boss according to cohen's attorney, the aforementioned lanny davis.
will cohen cooperate with the special counsel, bob mueller? >> the answer is he will cooperate with everyone because he's committed to telling the truth. but i know that when he retained me, as recently as yesterday, he's committed to telling the truth. >> shepard: dramatic evolution from last summer when michael cohen said he was so loyal to the president he'd take a bullet for him. no more. rick lefb that will has the latest. >> michael cohen could have spent the rest of his life in federal prison. with this plea deal he's looking at three to five years. nothing in the deal excel him to cooperate with the mueller -- compels him to cooperate with the mueller investigation but doesn't preclude it. lanny davis said cohen appears ready to cooperate. he's free on $500,000 bond, admitted under oath to hiding $4 million in income from the irs, hiding a debt to secure a home equity loan, paying off two
women to protect his boss and help win the white house. as you heard john roberts report, cohen told the judge in the summer of 2016 he arranged a reimburse a tabloid for buying and then burying a story about former playboy model karen mccuingal who claimed an affair with mr. trump and said he paid $130 no steffi clifford, stormy daniels, she was ready to go public with the claimed affair. both cases cohen said he did so in coordination and direction for candidate for federal office, protect from information that would be harmful to the candidate for the principle purpose of influencing the election. cohen's attorney admits he lied for years but now says he's committed to telling the truth. >> shepard: at the same time cohen's attorney says the president of the united states should be prosecuted. >> he does. he said that the president committed a crime and should be indicted. listen. >> mr. trump wasn't willing to sign those checks himself. he directed mr. cohen to make those hush money payments. is a federal crime.
if michael cohen, with the prosecutors in new york, agreeing admitted to that, then certainly donald trump is guilty of the same crime. >> we heard from attorney allen dershowitz, saying the president is far from an impeachable offense and far from a criminal offense. >> if mr. trump, the candidate, contributed several hundred thousand dollars to his own campaign to pay hush money to women who were truthfully or falsely alleging against him that's not a crime. a candidate can contribute as much as he wants. if he directed somebody to do it intending to pay it back. >> cohen will be sentenced on december 12. his lawyer says he doesn't want anything from the president including a pardon. >> shepard: rick, thank you. breaking news now, on fox news channel and this is just in to us here at the network. from our station, fox 29 in philadelphia. which has just reported that new york state investigators have just issued a subpoena to
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has information that would be interesting to prosecutors at the state and federal level. as a close confidant, they seiko hen could be a significant source of information looking into whether trump or his charity broke state law or lied about their tax liability. anybody charged with a state crime could not be pardoned by the president. messages left with attorneys for cohen and trump were not immediately returned. all of that from the associated press. michael cohen works with president trump for more than a decade. he rose through the ranks of the trump organization, eventually became executive vice president. lauraingle in new york city with more. >> hi, shep. michael cohen has a long history here in new york professionally and personally. the son of a holocaust survive or, grew up on long island, became a lawyer and taxi medallion owner, purchased several trump apartments. that's where the connection to the president began. a big week as we've reported for
the married father of two who will be by the way celebrating his 52nd birthday this saturday with a new title to add on-to-his roster, admitted felon. cohen earned his law degree from the thomas m. coolly law school in michigan but could be disbarred if he is convicted. that's one part of it. according to published reports he met the president in 2004 hiel he was looking to buy an apartment at trump park avenue. after siding with mr. trump in a dispute with the condo board at trump's world tower, he publicly promoted trump tower apartments as a sound investment. something that led mr. trump to offer him a job. cohen quit his law partnership and went to work for the trump organization in 2007. cohen has a resume in politics, named deputy finance chair of the republican national committee finance committee in 2017. a post he resigned this year citing the ongoing special counsel investigation. he also had democratic ties, posting a picture of himself with hillary clinton in 2014, on
his twitter page with the #hillary clinton fan. cohen has also donated money to candidates on both sides of the aisle including democrat senator chuck schumer of new york and republican senator john mccain of arizona. cohen recently became a registered republican, too, he was reg staersd democrat in january of 2017. in march of that year, he tweet heed was making the official move to join the republican party adding that it, quote, took a great man at poe tuesday to get me to make the switch. >> shepard: thanks, laura engle. all of the news on president trump's former campaign chairman and former fixer overshadowed, charges gains popular republican lawmaker from southern california. the feds are using the california congressman duncan hunter, and his wife, of spending hundreds of thousands of campaign dollars on themselves. paying for everything from lavish trips to fast food.
again, this was the man, the second in all of congress, to endorse president trump. the first to endorse president trump has found his own trouble. details on all of this, just ahead. if you have psoriasis, ...
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understand is that his plea agreement actually says that it does not bind any other agency or law enforcement agency. so this isn't surprising that the new york state tax division is looking at this. also, his plea agreement calls for him to file amended tax returns. new york state officials look at those amended tax returns as evidence of criminal action. if he didn't pay the federal taxes he didn't pay the state taxes. >> shepard: if he was, for instance, making payments for services rendered or anything else, from the foundation, which you're not really allowed to do, and should have had a tax liability on such things, then this might expose that. >> well, the charity you remember, is not taxable. so that's a tax exempt organization. >> shepard: that's kind of the point. >> and i think some of the issues are what they use, the charity to do. the attorney general's office under barbara underwood,
actually had imposed punitive measures on members of trump's family, jared kushner, ivanka trump. it's a question whether this was not acting a as nonprofit. if it was acting in a for-profit way there be would be tax liability. >> shepard: that probe is under way, renew of the civil probe, now moving on to that. as for yesterday, michael cohen has known donald trump for a long time. under oath, implicated the. of the united states a melanie. what do you do with -- for a felony. what do you do with that? >> for mr. trump? >> shepard: how does the system react to that in challenging times? . under normal circumstances the person that he implicated would also be charged. obviously, there is a, it appear das -- >> shepard: if the president weren't the president under these circumstances he would be channelled. >> correct, correct. it would lead to a -- the indictment would be sealed so that mr. cohen could cooperate so that the person that he's cooperating against knows. this is a public indictment -- public plea agreement.
the president knows obviously it's all over the news that he's the person that michael cohen is referring to, then-candidate. what it means is that this is more ammunition, more fuel for the mueller investigation. a question of which route mr. mueller takes, whether he goes against the sitting -- standing d.o.j. policies, indict the sitting president, or use it for the president for impeachment purposes. >> shepard: not as if the president and his team couldn't mount a vigorous defense, they certainly could. >> sure, if it gets to that point. >> shepard: the point is just because he says it doesn't mean the president, you know, has committed any crime. he gets a chance to defend himself under any circumstance. >> of course. but understand what goes into a plea agreement here, it was federal prosecutors, they would vet this is a proper plea, a judge, article three j.j., appointed by president judge pauley, respected judge, makes sure this was a crime. and allow this plea to go
forward. and they did view that. and i think southern district of new york feels confident in making this plea. naming -- without naming president trump, naming president trump. >> shepard: nice to see you, thank you. some democrats on capitol hill want to dli the confirmation process for the supreme court nominee, now that the president's former attorney and campaign chair are facing prison time. cohen pleaded guilty, the jury convicted fan manafort in an extraordinary five-minute period yesterday. judge brett kavanaugh has been meeting with the senators on capitol hill ahead of his confirmation hearing as is custom. chuck schumer says the manafort and cohen cases are a game changer. peter doocy live on capitol hill. peter? >> shep, one of the democratic senators who had been planning to hear the president's nominee out crossed their meeting off her calendar today.
>> i will be cancelling my appointment with judge kavanaugh, because i choose not to extend a courtesy to this president who is an unindicted co-conspirator to this president, the corte sieve meeting with his nominee for the supreme court, a lifetime appointment. >> as far as we know president trump has not been identified as an unnamed co-conspirator in any indictment. like the senator said. that doesn't mean the democrats aren't trying to stop the kavanaugh proceedings, something that the senate minority whip, dick durbin, was pushing for. he told news the hallway seems to me at the minimum we should be withholding this decision about a supreme court nominee until the air is cleared. but there is one thing the democrats don't have right now, to hold up the proceedings. that is enough votes. shep? >> shepard: no, they don't, they couldn't do it without republicans. what are you hearing from republicans? >> they don't want to change the schedule. the judiciary commit any the senate put out a statement
saying justice breyer's confirmation occurred when. clinton's records had been subpoenaed by a grand jury. we're nowhere close to that situation. . calls to delay the hearing are the latest tactic from opponents who decided to vote no weeks ago, franticly looking for anything that sticks. the hearing will begin as planned on september 4. senator marco rubio, republican from florida, is pushing his colleagues to stick to their agenda. >> they will continue to do so, judge kavanaugh, is extremely qualified, i look forward to voting for him. >> there are no republicans who are reaching across the is a toll the democrats saying we will help you hold up kavanaugh. shep? >> shepard: peter doocy, live on capitol hill, thank you. a republican lawmaker and his wife now accused of dropping a quarter million in campaign cash on personal expenses. a federal grand jury has now
charged the california congressman duncan hunter and his wife, margaret, for using the campaign money for vacations, theater tickets, their kids' tuition, even fast food. one example, prosecutors say the couple used the money to take a vacation to it aly in 2015. -- to italy. they say the congressman tried to set up a tour of a naval facility to justify the trip. but when the timing didn't work out, he reportedly told his chief of staff to, quote, tell the navy to go blank themselves. congressman duncan hunter says the feds are carrying out a political agenda. he was the second member of congress to support president trump openly and says that's a big factor. the congressman also says he and his wife are excited to go to trial and prove their innocence. william is live in the west coast news hub, that might be another first. >> using campaign money for personal items is elly, why
prosecutors claim the couple tried on conceal how they spent the money. including trips as you said to italy and hah we wi relatives, children's private school tuition, theater tickets they claimed as gift baskets for supporters, ski trips, tequila shots, dental work claimed as charitable donation to smiles to life, even buying a pair of shorts. at a golf shop to claim golf because for wounded warriors. last night hunter's father, a former congressman, defended his son. >> it's politically motivated by hardcore democrats who want to get duncan hunter out of congress. >> now, hunter claims the indictment is a political hit job, two prosecutors once attended a hillary clinton fundraiser. yet u.s. attorneys office in southern california is run by a trump appointed republican who refused to hold this indictment until after the election. republicans considered east san diego a safe seat. now democrats who need just 23 seats to flip the house may have a chance to win.
hunter earns $174,000 a year, his wife contributes $36,000 as a campaign manager, yet according to the indictment the hunters spent substantially more than they earned, overdrawing their bank account more than 1,100 times over 7 years, resulting in $37,000 in overdraft fees. speaker ryan has stripped hunter of his committee assignments. this morning the san diego union trib called on hunter to resign. the two face arraignment tomorrow. >> shepard: william live in los angeles. we're waiting nor president trump to honor a fallen airman who died saving his fellow service members. we expect the medal of honor ceremony to begin in a few minutes, we'll bring it to you live as soon as it starts. , here's something you should know. there's a serious virus out there that 1 in 30 boomers has, yet most don't even know it. a virus that's been almost forgotten. it's hepatitis c. hep c can hide in the body for years without symptoms. left untreated it can lead to liver damage, even liver cancer.
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john chapman. back in 2002 a rocket propelled grenade hit the sergeant's helicopter and the navy seal fell on to a snowy mountain in afghanistan. sergeant chapman and a team of navy seals went back for their comrades. it led to an hours-long battle with al qaeda militants. the pentagon reported that other members of the team thought chop man had died and they had to leave him behind. but video from a drone said chapman kept fighting for another hour before the militants eventually killed him. e officials say he saved his teammates' lives. the president honors him on behalf of america. now here's president trump. ♪ .
>> mau you join me in prayer for those who desire. holy father, we thank you for this day. for this national recognition and for technical sergeant john chapman. lord, we enter this esteemed ceremony with hearts filed with grief and pride. our dpreef stems from the pain of than jo's sacrifice along with six other courageous americans that lost their lives in noble service to our nation in the cause of human freedom and dignity. our pride stems on this day focused upon the man you createed, gifted, and empowered with an unconventional resolve to operate selflessly in protecting his family, his teammates, and the world from the evil of terrorism. we thank you, lord, for the opportunity to honor john chapman with america's highest
decoration for his heroic valor. to honor the enduring sacrifice his family carries deeply within their hearts. and to honor the legacy, inspiration that john has infused into the mission, the leadership, and the operations of air force special tactics. lord, your just intent of overcoming evil with good in this world through human agency found fearless expression in john. even in the face of death so others may live. we thank you for john, we thank you for his family, we thank you for his unforgettable life and love shaped by your very spirit. father, as we move forward this day may your presence be tangbly known to than jo's appreciates family. as we move forward may john's sacrifice motivate selflessly duty to you, to country, and to humanity. as we move forward may we give thanks for our great nation, our great military, and our great
liberties that rest upon the bravery and blood of selfless patriots like technical sergeant john chapman. to this end we pray, amen. >> amen. >> president trump: thank you very much. please be seated, thank you. thank you, chaplain, very well done, beautiful. we're honored to be joined by members of congress, military leaders, distinguished guests from across our nation. i want to recognize secretary of the air force heather wilson, thank you heather. air force chief of staff david goldhein, thank you, it's been 19 years, i think, right? with the air force, to deal with the congressional medal of honor. congratulations. a long time. very dwee serving. -- deserving. air force undersecretary matthew done on sdran, air force vice
chief of staff steven wilson, and chief master sergeant of the air force kathleen wright. i also want to thank v.a. secretary robert wilke for joining us and you are doing a great job. the vets are very happy, hearing a lot of great reports. along with senators john bozeman, richard blumenthal, bob casey, chris murphy, and toomey and representative john gates and john larson. thank you for being here, thank you all very much, appreciate it. we're gathered together this afternoon to pay tribute to a fallen warrior, a great warrior, technical sergeant john chapman, and to award him our nation's highest and most revered military honor. would you all please join me in welcoming a wonderful family
that i just met in the oval office, the chapman family, thank you, please stand up. [applause] >> president trump: and to his beautiful wife, valerie, who agrees he was a brave man, right from the beginning. you knew. that i know this day is truly brought special meaning. exactly 26 years ago you married john. today is our great honor to share his incredible story with the world. so thank you very much, valerie, we appreciate it. and your daughters mad i sonl and brianna -- madison and brianne, a we award your dad the
congressional medal of honor. and i know he's looking down on you, right now, from heaven, proud of this day. but even more proud of the incredible young women that you have both become. it's great to know you. great to have met you, thank you. we're also grateful to be joined by john's wonderful mom, terri. his sister, laurie. his brother, kevin. and valerie's parents rita and jim novak, thank you all for being here. very great honor. [applause] though she could not be here today, somebody that john loved very much, his sister, tammy, please give our regards, thank you. i also want to recognize jack souza, john's friend and combat
control teammate, who is still recovering from a recent severe injury. jack, thank you for your noble service, thank you very much. we appreciate it. thank you, thank you jack. [applause] looks like you're doing well. doing well? good, thank you, jack. finally, we salute the five congressional medal of honor recipients who join us, woody williams, harvey barnham, eld ward buyers, brian thacker and brent slobinske. please stand. [applause]buyers, brian thacker slobinske. please stand. [applause]yers, brian thacker a slobinske. please stand. [applause] brave people. three months ago i awarded the medal of honor to brit for his
heroic actions in the battle we are talking about today. john chapman grew up in connecticut from a very young age, john was determined to protect those in need. in kindergarten, john noticed that his classmate, bill brooks, was being bullied. as bill says, john stepped in and saved me. in his high school yearbook, john quoted these words, give yourself before taking of some one else. very far-sighted. john lived by that motto, every single day. everybody that knew him said that's the way he lived. two years after he graduated high school, john enlisted in the united states air force. he was among the elite few to complete air force special tactics training, one of the most rigorous training programs in all of the military. john became an expert in deploying undetected on to the
battlefield to set up air fields, and direct fire support. now, john will become the first special tactics airman to receive the congressional medal of honor. john met valerie in pennsylvania while he was training with the army. it was a big day. good day, right? they married in 1992 and soon their love grew into a beautiful family. whenever john was home he immediately took on dad duty, reading to the girls, playing with them, and even building an amazing swing set. do you remember that? a long time ago. a swing set. soon after the terror attacks of september 11, john volunteered to deploy to afghanistan. he walked into his superior's office and said i need to go. in one of the most harrowing
engagements of operation enduring freedom, john was part of a highly-trained team on a combat mission to establish a secure position on the peak of tarkurgar mountain. in the early morning of march 4, 2002, john and his teammates were preparing to land on to the mountain when their helicopter was struck by heavy machine gunfire and a rocket-propelled grenade. they were under serious attack. as the helicopter lurched away, petty officer first class neil roberts was flung out of the aircraft and on to the top of the mountain. as the helicopter crash landed into the valley below. horrific crash. the team survived the crash and without hesitation they volunteered to return to the mountain. they wanted to get neil.
they landed into a deep snow and heavy machine gunfire coming from three different directions. couldn't even see, so many bullets. over 10,000 feet, they fought the enemy at the highest altitude of any battle in the history of the american military. john chapman was the first to charge up the mountain toward the enemy. he killed two terrorists and cleared out the first bunker. john left the safety of the first bunker to fire a second enemy grenade at another bunker. as john fired on the second bunker, he was shot and fell to the ground and lost consciousness. even though he was mortally wounded, john regained consciousness and continued to fight on. and he really fought. we have proof of that fight. he really fought. good genes. you have good genes. he immediately began firing at the enemy who was bombarding him
with machine gunfire and rocket-pro pild grenades. despite facing overwhelming force, john bravely and fiercely battled on for over an hour as another american quick reaction force helicopter approached. john engaged the enemy and provided covering fire in an attempt to prevent the enemy from shooting down our soldiers, our airmen, and that helicopter. in this final act of supreme courage, john gave his life for his fellow warriors. through his extraordinary sacrifice, john helped save more than 20 american service members, some of whom are here today. and i'd like to introduce them. sergeant major matthew lefriends, please stand up. thank you, sir. [applause] thank you sergeant major.
sergeant major raymond depauley, thank you, raymond. [applause] special tactics major gabriel brown. [applause] thank you. along with his team leader master chief brit slobinski. [applause] thank you, thank you all. and we also remember the six others who along with john gave their lives on that snowy, really, really cold afghan night. petty officer first class neil roberts, specialist mark anderson, sergeant bradley crows, senior airman jason cunningham, technical sergeant phillip svitak, corporal matthew cummings.
the greatestblingsings of our country are patriots like john and all of you that just stood and frankly many of the people in this room. i exclude myself and a few of the politicians. [laughing] who, like john, carry our freedom on their shoulders, march into the face of evil, and fight to their very last breath so that we can live in freedom and safety and peace. it is my privilege to ask valerie to join me on stage to accept the congressional medal of honor on behalf of the hero she loved and the hero our nation will forever remember, technical sergeant john chapman. thank you. please, please valerie, thank you. [applause] would the military aid meese come forward and read the citation. thank you.
>> the president of the united states of america has awarded in the name of congress the medal of honor posthumously to technical sergeant john a. chapman, united states air force conspicuous gallantry at the risk of life above and beyond the call of duty. technical sergeant john a. chapman twished himself by extraordinary heroism as an air force special tactic combat controller attached to a navy sea, air and land seal team conducting reconnaissance operations in afghanistan on march 4, 2002. during insertion the team's helicopter was ambushed, causing a teammate to fall into an entrenched group of combatants below. sergeant chapman and the team voluntarily reinserted on to the snow capped mountain into the heart of a known enemy stronghold to rescue con of their own.
without regard for his own safety, sergeant chapman immediately engaged, moving in the direction of the closest enemy position despite coming under heavy fire from multiple directions. he fearlessly charged an enemy bunker up a steep incline in thigh-deep snow and into hostile fire directly even gaujing the enemy. upon reaching the bunker, sergeant chapman assaulted and cleared the position killing all enemy occupants. with complete disregard for his own life, sergeant chapman deliberately moved from cover only 12 meeters from the enemy and exposed himself once again to attack a second bunker from which an implaced machine gun was firing on his team. during this assault from an assault position directory in the line of intense fire, sergeant chapman was struck and injured by enemy fire. despite severe mortal wounds he continued to fight relentless any, sustaining a violent engagement with multiple enemy personnel before making the ultimate sacrifice. by his heroic aks and extraordinary valor, sacrificing
his life for the lives of his teammates, technical sergeant chapman upheld the highest traditions of military service and reflected great credit upon himself and the united states air force. [ applause ] [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause]
[ applause ] >> for those of you who desire to join me in prayer once more. oh lord we thank you again for this honorable ceremony, for it is right to exalt integrity, courage, and valor. we thank you, again, for john's life and love that look beyond self preservation, to the preservation of others, to the preservation of human worth and dig nilt, to the preservation of righteous governance around the world. we thank you again for building this man's heart, his mind, and his fearless resolve that equally matched his war fighting skills.
so others may live. as we conclude may john's family be covered with your lavish love and peace. may the uniform sons of daughters of america know your empowerment and protection and may you hasten the day, oh, lord, where war will be no more. for your glory we pray, amen. >> amen.
for. and to give their family such an understanding moment. it is a wonderful tradition and a fantastic thing to watch. >> it is so unique. it is the first one for the air force since vietnam. that is 44 years. it is a long time or something so overdue. for john chapman, it was new drone technology that he survived on the mountaintop and fought for 70 minutes alone. this is an upgrade of a previous metal. the former secretary, deborah james pushed hard for this. this was a great day for his family. >> shepard: what a great day and a privilege for us to watch on behalf of a grateful nation, as the president put it. and certainly on behalf of those of us here. aside from that, we were glad to bring you that from start to finish without any interruption. aside from that, it get lots
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the elements of a crime. i had cases trying to plead guilty and he said what you said is not a crime, i am not accepting your plea. yesterday, heard what michael cohen said, said that is a crime, i accept your guilty plea. >> when they say he wasn't implicated in the cohen plea deal, john, is that a lie? >> well, actually the president was not named in the indictment or in the plea agreement. michael cohen did an audible during his allocution, said the president directed me to do it, not in the documents that were signed. that came as a big surprise. the bottom line is michael cohen admitted to a crime, rather than take a bullet for the president, he shot a seering missile. right now, the white house is not articulating a defense. rule one. don't allow your client to speak. the more president trump speaks, the worse it gets. >> what do you make of his defense? >> it is not a valid defense. three defenses the white house has to make.
number one, michael cohen is not credible. number two, the president should say i relied on my lawyer to take care of this legal mum bow jumbo and cohen strcrewed it up. this was not related to the campaign, it was personal. trump wanted it secret, it is the john edwards defense. they need a defense. >> cohen may not be done yet either. he had put himself out there, his attorney lanny davis suggested that he has more to tell to the special counsel, and to congress. in fact, he is even talking about testifying without i am unlt in -- immunity in front of congress. >> lanny davis hitting the talk shows saying cohen has information to share with the special counsel that he's alleged that cohen knows that trump knew about the hack of the dnc before it became public. we don't know there's anything to substantiate that.
direct knowledge when and if he discusses this with the special counsel. >> what's your reaction to that? >> the biggest question out of yesterday, will michael cohen cooperate with southern district of new york and or the mueller team. it takes two. both sides have to be willing. clearly lanny davis is outright saying we're ready, he wants to come in and cooperate. the question is, there are two questions. does the southern district want to cooperate him. if i was in their shoes, i would hear him out, let's hear him out. the big issue, can they corroborate him, back him up. it is one thing to have michael cohen say he knew about the e-mails beforehand, you cannot bank a criminal charge on uncorroborated word of a problematic cooperating witness like michael cohen with a lot of baggage himself. what is going to determine this ball of wax, can southern district find something, e-mail,
independent witness to back it up. >> they say they have a witness to back it up that cohen was directed by then candidate trump, and point to all of the things the fbi was able to confiscate when they raided his properties previously from recordings to e-mails to text messages, even encrypted texts sent in exchange. they seem to think they have quite a bit of ammunition. bigger picture, if i step back, in the southern district if trump were not the sitting president of the united states, would he be indicted now? >> i don't think just yet. southern district is careful. they're not bringing a case until they do a full investigation. one of the areas to look at are the executives in the trump organization that apparently approve of payments. that's a fruitful area of analysis. we're just seeing the tip of the iceberg. we don't know what the southern district investigation is in its
totality. one thing if i was president trump and his team, i would be very concerned. >> and quickly, because cohen says he has more he could tell mueller, one, why hasn't mueller already talked to him if he already has all of this extra information, but two, what could cohen know that mueller would find useful? >> one reason we think that mueller never spoke to cohen is because cohen was the target, and target of a southern district investigation. it would have been legal j jeopardy to talk to him and he probably wouldn't have, and certainly wouldn't go before a grand jury. but he could be interested for a number of reasons. he was one of the people at the trump organization that floated the idea of building a trump tower branded hotel in moscow, had many conversations, attempts at conversations there. has been with trump over ten years. he knows where the bodies are buried. he defines himself as trump's fixer, he solves his problems. he knows a lot about trump and
how the trump organization works, how the money flows and the real estate deals. if mueller had any information that would lead him down those paths, particularly the trump tower moscow, that would be an avenue he would want to talk to him about. there's also been reporting that cohen, implying cohen knew that trump knew about the meeting with the russian lawyer at the trump tower, and of course the statements about that meeting are now in question. that would be another area they would be worth probing, whether cohen has the goods on any of these things remains to be seen, but these are some of the flags of areas we have seen come up that he could be interested in talking to cohen, at least seeing what's in the documents, see if he has anything to corroborate what he is saying. >> let me say, too, paul manafort, not just cohen we are talking about in the last 24 news that's been shaking. trump tweeting today about
manafort this morning, he writes i feel very badly for paul manafort and his wonderful family. justice which he puts in quotes took a 12-year-old tax case among other things, applied tremendo tremendous pressure, and unlike michael cohen, he refused to break, make up stories to get a deal. such respect for a brave man. based on the tweet, let's say he pardons manafort. is that obstruction of justice? >> whenever you pardon somebody, you're undermining the judicial process, you're undermining a prosecution. it is a sign the president is trying to do what he can to undermine mueller's investigation. i think it would be evident of his intent, but i don't think the pardon would be used by mueller as an act of obstruction. in other words, there's plenty of acts mueller could and will point to as obstruction by the
president, for example, firing of james comey, his orders, for example, to fire mueller himself or to try to get sessions to unrecuse himself, et cetera. i think he will focus on those as obstructionist acts because i think they're more clear, but use this to show trump's intent. and certainly what you see here is a man, the president who claimed to be a law and order candidate, sounds more like a criminal who's pleased one of his henchmen remains silent rather than in law and order. >> manafort could still make some deal to get his sentencing down, right, if he were to start cooperating with mueller's team if he had something useful for them? >> no question. if there's not a pardon on the table, and i represented paul manafort, i would say you need to cut a deal right away. get the d.c. case wrapped up in district of columbia, get that wrapped into the virginia case,
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impeachment as a tangible possibility. let's talk about it more with one of the reporters that broke the watergate scandal that led to president nixon's resignation. carl bernstein is joining us. you said this is worse than watergate, but the difference is the political climate. listen to senator bob corker today. >> i can't imagine people who are familiar with what's been going on at the white house are particularly surprised, but i realize the actual statement of yesterday is -- it makes it real. >> carl, what is the responsibility of republicans in all of this? >> well, certainly the republicans on capitol hill have been craven and have enabled trump's coverup, they have enabled his continuing lie without calling him in to
account and they may or may not pay dearly in terms of their political lives, but this is a moment of truth for the republican party. they do not have to condemn or come to the aid of donald trump but people on capitol hill in the republican party need to say we are for the rule of law and this president has shown in the last week particularly his utter contempt for the rule of law. >> i know that viewers at home see the developments, legal cases, and are asking where do we go from here? >> i think it is not a time to be crystal balling. i think we in the media particularly as well as people watching at home need to be focusing on the actions and words of the president of the united states, and particularly in regard to the mueller
investigation. it is important to this country and its future that the mueller investigation which is a by the book nonleaking credible law abiding operation be permitted to finish its work. and then the american people can know much more about the underlying facts, but what we are seeing now is a kind of sewage seeping up from the white house swamp, particularly in what we are watching from donald trump, holding out, dangling a pardon possibility in front of paul manafort. it is unspeakable to watch this. i can't remember anything in our history -- let me finish, if i may. his words about brave paul manafort and the offense that has been committed against paul
manafort and his fine family and all the rest is extraordinary and i don't think any serious person and certainly no serious lawyer or justice department official that i know of thinks it is anything but an attempt to dangle a pardon, and a speaker on our air a few minutes ago said he doubted it was part of obstruction of justice. i'm not sure that i would agree with that. that the act of offering and signaling a pardon at this moment, he has every right to pardon any person he wants to, but the act of signaling it at this point might well be a real part of a pattern of obstruction as well as obstruction in itself. >> and apologies for stepping on you. there's a little bit of a delay with our transmission here. when you talk about the president's reaction this morning, he did put out that
tweet really praising paul manafort showing that he has empathy for his case, calling him a brave man. we also heard him try to explain the michael cohen situation and virtually sweep it under the rug saying i paid for it and there was no campaign finance violation. is this what you expected in terms of reaction from the president? >> i've come to expect nothing but evasion and untreat from -- untruth from the president of the united states, the assertion he continually makes, no collusion, no collusion, no collusion. there seems to be considerable evidence of collusion. perhaps by his national security adviser, michael flynn, perhaps by his son in the trump tower meeting which was an invitation to collusion extended to his son and accepted with relish by
donald trump jr. the question is does collusion envelope donald trump himself or just members of his circle and campaign, and again, we have a long way to go here in terms of knowing the facts. let's wait for mr. mueller to give us the facts. but it is very important to realize that those of us that are reporters talking to people in the white house know that right now, donald trump is raging, that people around him regard his rages as bizarre at this point, and also that he is determined that the mueller investigation in some way be shut down so that there can be no chance that his presidency is shut down. >> carl bernstein, great to have you with us. thank you so much for being here. up next, i'm be joined live by a white house reporter who was on air force one as all of the news was breaking less than
24 hours ago. hear what it was like to be inside the trump bubble.
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in his inner circle, trump's former attorney, long time fixer michael cohen pleading guilty to 8 charges, implicating the president in a crime. trump's former campaign chair paul manafort found guilty on 8 counts. as this news sinks in, the next 100 minutes, unusually quiet on air force one. joining us now, a journalist that was on board that flight, politico white house reporter lorraine woolert. you were the pool reporter yesterday on air force one. you said my window seat on air force one was like a prison. explain. >> when you're on air force one, you don't have access to your phone or wi-fi, so you're literally in an information bubble. we did have a feed from fox news coming over the tv monitors on the plane, but we weren't able to communicate, couldn't get e-mails or news alerts, and couldn't send anything out.
and of course the president didn't come back to talk to the press on the plane, which is typical, so yeah. we took off just as all of this stuff was happening. >> what was conversation like? was there a conversation that you were overhearing, was the press talking amongst themselves? you were the pool reporter. i mean set the scene a little more for us. >> so i was one of two pool reporters that day and you know once the plane took off and we got into our bubble, it really was pretty quiet because at that point there was literally nothing we could do. to be honest, i had brought a book called "born trump" and read about an hour on the plane until we were able to get communications back online. so the plane itself, the flight itself was kind of quiet. it was after we landed that things got really nuts. >> what was going through your mind when you're like okay, i have no phone, but this news is breaking as you see it scrolling across the tv.
>> right. so obviously this was a historic day. the president implicated in potentially a crime and his campaign manager obviously found guilty, now a felon. so, you know, we were thinking this campaign event the president was going to could possibly blow up into something bigger and he did come over to talk to us when he got off the plane in charleston, west virginia, gave us a really brief appearance, maybe two minutes. he said some nice things about paul manafort and then got into his car. so that's when we started, i was getting like the adrenaline pumping at that point, we're like all right, he is going to come in front of this crowd, it has been nothing but this for the last couple of hours on tv, he's got to talk about it at the event. he didn't. minute by minute, you know, i was tracking the breaking news. and by the way, it wasn't just
manafort and cohen at that point, then we had a congressman who was an early trump supporter, duncan hunter, then facebook, mark zuckerberg came out, was talking about russia. >> exactly. let me play the sound from the president at his rally last night. >> the russian witch hunt, we have a whole big thing, where is the collusion. they're still looking for collusion. where is the collusion? find some collusion. >> so lorraine, real quick, heard him talk about collusion. he didn't say anything specific about cohen or manafort at the rally but are you hearing anything from trump supporters there reacting to news of the day yesterday? >> no. so that clip was the only reference to any of this from his entire speech last night and as your viewers may know, the press at the events is penned
into sort of a little cage, it is up to rally goers to talk to us. i was trying to wave people over to talk to me. nobody wanted to talk about manafort or cohen. and one fellow who did speak to me was like eh, it is no big deal, people make mistakes. this one gentleman was more interested in talking about walter cronkite, how he missed days of walter cronkite's tv. it was just not an issue at the rally, none of this. >> thank you for letting us be a fly on the wall, walking us through the moments, what it was like for you as a journalist. appreciate it. >> thanks. any moment now, president trump is expected to honor an air force sergeant killed in battle in afghanistan. it will be the first medal of honor for an air man since the vietnam war. we will take you to the white house live. it's time for the 'biggest sale of the year'
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♪ >> for those that desire, may you join me now in prayer. holy father, we thank you for this day, for this national recognition and for technical sergeant john chapman. lord, we enter this esteemed ceremony with hearts filled with grief and pride. our grief stems from the pain of john's sacrifice with six other courageous americans that lost their lives at takur ghar in noble service to our nation in the cause of human freedom and dignity. our pride stems on this day, focused upon the man you created, gifted, empowered, with unconventional resolve to operate selflessly in protecting his family, his teammates, and the world from the evil of
terrorism. we thank you, lord, for the opportunity to honor john chapman with america's highest decoration for his heroic valor, to honor the enduring sacrifice his family carries deeply within their hearts, and to honor the legacy and inspiration john infused into the mission, the leadership, and the operations of air force special tactics. lord, your just intent found fearless expression in john, even in the face of death so others may live. we thank you for john. we thank you for his family. we thank you for his unforgettable life and love shaped by your very spirit. father, as we move forward this day, may your presence be tangibly known to john's precious family. as we move forward, may john's sacrifice motivate selfless duty to you, to country, and to
humanity. and as we move forward, may we give thanks for our great nation, our great military, and our great liberties that rest upon the bravery and blood of selfless patriots like technical sergeant john chapman. to this end, we pray. amen. >> thank you very much, please be seated. thank you. thank you, chaplain. very well done. beautiful. we're honored to be joined by members of congress, military leaders, distinguished guests from all across our nation. i want to recognize secretary of the air force, heather wilson. thank you, heather, thank you. air force chief of staff david goldfang. thank you. it has been 19 years i think, right, for the air force. long time, very deserving.
air force undersecretary matthew donovan, air force vice chief of staff, stephen wilson, and chief master sergeant of the air force, kathleen wright. i also want to thank va secretary robert wilke for joining us, and you are doing a great job. the vets are very happy. hearing a lot of great reports. thank you very much. along with senators john boseman, richard blumenthal, bob casey, chris murphy, pat toomey, and representative matt gates and john larson. thank you all for being here very much. thank you all very much. appreciate it. we're gathered together this afternoon to pay tribute to a fallen warrior, a great warrior, technical sergeant john chapman, and to award him our nation's highest, most revered military
honor. would you all please join me in welcoming a wonderful family that i just met in the oval office, the chapman family. thank you. please stand up. [ applause ] and to his beautiful wife, valerie, who agrees that he was a very brave man right from the beginning, right? you knew that. i know this day has truly brought special meaning. exactly 26 years ago you married john. today is our great honor to share his incredible story with the world, so thank you very much, valerie. appreciate it. and to your daughters, madison
and brianna, we award your dad the congressional medal of honor, and i know he is looking down on you right now from heaven, proud of this day, but even more proud of the incredible young women you have both become. it's great to know you. great to have met you. thank you. we're also grateful to be joined by john's wonderful mom terry, his sister lori, his brother kevin, and valerie's parents, rita and jim novak. thank you all for being here. great honor. thank you. [ applause ] and though she could not be here today, somebody that john loved very much, his sister tammy. please give our regards.
thank you. i also want to recognize jack s suza, his teammate still recovering from recent severe injury. jack, thank you for your noble service. thank you very much. we appreciate it. thank you. thank you, jack. appreciate it. [ applause ] looks like you're doing well, doing well. thank you, jack. finally, we salute the five congressional medal of honor recipients that join us. woody williams, harvey barnum, edward byers, byron thacker, britt slovinski. please stand. [ applause ] brave people. three months ago i awarded the
medal of honor to brit for his heroic actions in the same battle we are remembering today. john chapman grew up in windsor locks, connecticut. from a very young age, john was determined to protect those in need. in kindergarten, john noticed his classmate, bill brooks, was being bullied. as bill says, john stepped in and saved me. in his high school yearbook, john quoted these words, give yourself before taking of someone else. very farsighted. john lived by that motto every single day. everybody that knew him said that's the way he lived. two years after he graduated high school john enlisted in the united states air force. he was among the elite few to complete air force special tactics training, one of the most rigorous training programs in all of the military.
john became an expert in deploying undetected onto the battlefield to set up air fields and direct fire support. now john will become the first special tactics airman to receive the congressional medal of honor. john met valerie in pennsylvania while he was training with the army. it was a big day. good day, right sm they married in 1992 -- right? they married in 1992, soon grew into a beautiful family. whenever john was home, he immediately took on dad duty, reading to the girls, playing with them, even building an amazing swing set. do you remember that? long time ago, a swing set. soon after the terror attacks of september 11, john volunteered to deploy to afghanistan. he walked into his superior's
office and said i need to go. in one of the most harrowing engagements of operation, enduring freedom, john was part of a highly trained team on a combat mission to establish a secure position on the peak of takur ghar mountain. in the early morning of march 4, 2002, john and his teammates were preparing to land onto the mountain when their helicopter was struck by heavy machine gunfire, and a rocket propelled grenade. they were under serious attack. as the helicopter lurched away, petty officer first class neil roberts was flung out of the aircraft and onto the top of the mountain as the helicopter crash landed into the valley below. a horrific crash. the team survived the crash, and without hesitation they volunteered to return to the
mountain. they wanted to get neil. they landed into a deep snow and heavy machine gunfire coming from three different directions. couldn't even see, so many bullets. over 10,000 feet, they fought the enemy at the highest altitude of any battle in the history of the american military. john chapman was the first to charge up the mountain toward the enemy. he killed two terrorists and cleared out the first bunker. john left the safety of the first bunker to fire a second enemy grenade at another bunker. as john fired on the second bunker, he was shot and fell to the ground and lost consciousness. even though he was mortally wounded, john regained consciousness and continued to fight on, and he really fought. we have proof of that fight. he
of that fight. good genes. you have good genes. he was firing at the enemy bombarding him with rocket-propelled grenades. despite facing overwhelming force, john battled on for over an hour as another american yik reaction force helicopter engaged. john provided covering fire and an attempt to prevent the enemy from shooting down the soldiers, airmen and that helicopter. in this final act of supreme courage, john gave his life for his fellow warriors. through his extraordinary sacrifice, john helped save more than 20 american service members, some of whom are here today. and i like to introduce them. matthew lafranz. please stand up. thank you, sir. sergeant major. [ applause ]
sergeant major raymond depaulie. thank you, raymond. [ applause ] special tactics major gabriel brown. [ applause ] along with his team leader master chief brit slabinski [ applause ] thank you. thank you all. and we also remember the six others who along with john gave their lives on that snowy, really, really cold afghan night. petty officer first class neil roberts, specialist mark anderson, sergeant bradley krauss, senior airman jason cunningham, technical sergeant phillip svadin and corporal
matthew commons. our country is rich with blessings but our greatest blessings of all are the patriots like john and all of you that stood and many of the people in this room. i exclude myself and a few of the politicians. who like, john, carry our freedom on their shoulders, march into the face of evil and fight to their very last breath so that we can live in freedom and safety and freedom and peace. now it is my privilege to ask valerie on stage to accept the congressional medal of honor on behalf of the hero she loved and the hero our nation will forever remember, technical sergeant john chapman. thank you. please. please, valerie. thank you. [ applause ]
would the military aide please come forward and read the citation? thank you. >> the president of the united states of america has awarded in the name of congress the medal of honor posthumously to technical sergeant john a. chapman, united states air force. for ga lantly at the risk of life above and beyond the call of duty. technical sergeant john a. chapman distinguished himself through heroism as a special combat controller attached to a navy sea, air and land s.e.a.l. team conducting operations in takur ghar, afghanistan, in 2002. the team's helicopter was ambushed, calling a teammate to fall in combatants below. the sergeant and the team voluntarily reinserted on to the
snow-capped mountain boo the heart of a known enemy stronghold. without regard for his own safety, sergeant chapman immediately engaged, moving in the direction of the closest enemy position despite coming under heavy fire of multiple directions. he fearlessly charged an enemy bunker, up a sleep incline and into hostile fire engaging the enemy. upon reaching the bunker, the sergeant assaulted and cleared the position killing all enemy occupants. with complete disregard for his own life, sergeant chapman deliberately moved from cover 12 meters from the enemy and exposed once again to attack a second bunker from which a machine gun firing on his team. during this assault from an exposed position directly in the line of intense fire, sergeant chapman was struck and injured by enemy fire. despite severe mortal wounds, he continued to fight relentlessly with a violent engagement of multiplen my personnel before
making the ultimate sacrifice. by his actions and extraordinary valor, sacrificing his life for the life of his teammates, technical sergeant chapman reflected great credit upon himself and the united states air force. [ applause ]
resolve that equally matched his war fighting skills. so others may live. as we conclude, may john's family be covered with your lavish love and peace. may the uniform sons and daughters of america know your empowerment and protection. and may you hasten the day, oh lord, where war will be no more. for your glory we pray, amen.
>> and with that, with that, we honor a fallen hero. we salute the brave sergeant john chapman, an airman who lost his life in 2002 in afghanistan as he tried to save his fellow troops. his family there to accept his med an on his behalf. the president honoring this airman with a special honor for the first time since the vietnam war. again, our thoughts are with the chapman family today. meantime, as we continue to follow the breaking news today, president trump is responding today for the first time to michael cohen implicating him in federal crimes. the president's new explanation and admission about paying the women. stand by.
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he had all the information on democrats. he had all the information on everybody, he went to jail holding the hands of the justice department or the fbi. they sat there together. they were smiling and laughing. and he got nothing. and he stole money and he had more information on corruption of the democrats than anybody and they don't even have his computers and his servers. they just gave him nothing. you saw that it was on your show. they gave him nothing. nothing. ainsley: double standard? >> double standard? i mean, he was worse than anybody, in my opinion. he got nothing. he's a democrat. he got nothing. the reason he got nothing is because the dems are very strong in the justice department. i put an attorney general who never took control of the justice department. jeff seghtsdz. never took control of the justice department. it's sort of an incredible thing. we have this country going so well. mike pompeo is doing incredibly, all of my people, they are doing
incredibly. but the whole thing going on with justice and fbi, when you see strzok and his lover lisa page. when you see comey with all the lies that he has told. when you see mueller with the conflicts, he's so conflicted. comey is his best friend. he had a really nasty business transaction with me, which he never reported. i have been talking about he never reports it. i mean, you look at the bad things. he wanted the fbi job that christopher wray has. now christopher wray was recommended by rosenstein. the fbi -- i will tell you what if you took a poll in the fbi i will tell you one thing i would do very well. ainsley: are you considering pardoning paul manafort? >> i have great respect for what he has done in terms of what he has gone through. you know he worked for ronald reagan for years. he worked for bob dole. i guess his firm worked for
mccain. he worked for many, many people, many, many years. i would say what he did, some of the charges they threw against him, every consultants, every lobbyist in washington probably does. if you look at hillary clinton's person, you take a look at the people that work for hillary clinton, i mean, look at the crimes that clinton did. with the emails and she deletes 33,000 emails after she gets a subpoena from congress, and this justice department does nothing about it? and all of the other crimes that they have done. and they -- look at podesta. podesta was supposed to be manafort on steroids. they made him close up his firm. he was going to be indicted the next day, we heard. never happened. instead, they go after manafort. so, look, i didn't know manafort well. he wasn't with the campaign long, they got him on things totally unrelated to the campaign. by the way they got cohen on things totally unreality to the campaign. i'm not involved.
i wasn't charged with anything. people don't like to say that, i wasn't charged. but, when you look at the corruption on the other side and they refuse to look at anything. when you don't look at strzok where he said basically we're going to take out the president, the insurance policy and everything else. you look at lisa page, the two lovers back and forth with these horrible, these horrible texts. you look at the kind of talk going on about it's really a subversion. and our justice department doesn't do anything about it people say oh, but you appointed jeff sessions. i said i did but i really feel as long as this is going out i don't have to do this but i will stay uninvolved and maybe that's the best thing to do. ainsley: mr. president, a lot of people are frustrated. a lot of people are frustrated with the doj and jeff sessions. there are rumors you are going to fire him after the mid terms and rosenstein. they want these documents. they are wondering if you will use your power to get the documents released. >> at the right time i think i will have to do the
documents. yingts to, but i think i'm going to have to. there is such corruption before i got here. it's from before i got here. it's the obama administration you look at what happened? they're surveilled my campaign. it's very simple. the fisa report. ainsley: rosenstein signed the last fisa report. >> it bothers me. ainsley: will you fire him? will you fire sessions? >> as i said, i wanted to stay uninvolved. but when everybody sees what's going on in the justice department, i always put justice now with quotes. it's a very, very sad day. jeff sessions recused himself, which he shouldn't have done or he should have told me. even my enemies say that jeff sessions should have told you that he was going to recuse himself and then you wouldn't have put him in. he took the job and then he said i'm going to recuse myself i said what kind of a man is this? by the way, he was on the campaign. the only reason i gave him the job i felt loyalty. he weighs an original
supporter. he was on the campaign. he knows there was no collusion. and what's come out of manafort? no collusion. what's come out of michael cohen? no collusion. this is stuff that they got. how about with michael cohen, in all fairness to him, they raid his office at 6:00 in the morning? how about with manafort, they raid his home at like 5:00 in the morning, i think, on a weekend and his wife is in bed and they go in with guns? this isn't al capone. steve: okay. so you will have five more minutes here in about half an hour. ainsley: that's right. the big take away from that portion of it, he said the payout money he said it came from him. it didn't come from the campaign, so, therefore, it's not a campaign violation. also, he said he was never going to pardon paul manafort. it sounded like to me might be considering it. he didn't say yes, but he didn't say no. steve: he sounded like he was sympathetic toward paul manafort. we heard last night on
shannon's show that one of the jurors who spoke out was sympathetic towards paul manafort it should have been a tax audit. it shouldn't have been a trial. brian: thought the prosecution was lazy and bored and the defense could have done more for paul manafort but in the end they had some aspects. really good. part of the pressure on michael cohen, they will take down his wife, too. because she cosigned the tax returns. that's part of the reasons why he seems so broken with the president. ainsley: talk about mollie tibbetts, the democrats, do they want to impeach him, and nazi guard deportation. steve: thanks, ainsley. brand new information about that illegal immigrant who is charged with killing mollie tibbetts out in iowa. former homicide detective ted williams retraces mollie's steps. you will see him live next. you ready for this, junior? yeah, i think i can handle it. no pressure... ...that's just my favorite boat. boom.
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route that mollie jogged. take a look. law enforcement officers got a break in the case of mollie tibbetts, the missing university of iowa student. they were able to look at video footage from various residents in this neighborhood. one of those homes is a home similar to this where there is video footage that would span this entire area. now, here's what we know that on july the 18th, mollie tibbetts jogging down east des moines street and being followed, according to law enforcement officers by a stalker, christian rivera. mollie tibbetts came into this area where i'm at here now. she then made a left turn here on boundary street. and she jogged in this area still stalked, according to
law enforcement officers by christhian rivera. law enforcement has informed us that mollie took a turn jogging up 385 avenue and it was up 385 avenue that she was abducted by christhian rivera. and, guys, the investigation continues. steve: it does, indeed. ainsley: was she running in the middle of the night or during the daylight? i have heard both? >> no. this was during the daylight, ainsley, that she was running. brian: l.s.u.ly, everify, turns out they were not using the right everify the very least, right, ted? >> yeah, they were not using the right everify set up by homeland security and they also found that according to the farms that rivera gave them somebody else's identification and social security number. steve: that's right. very good. however, his lawyer said he entered as a minor which would bring up the question
did he have daca status and the federal government says no. ted, thank you very much. live report from des moines, iowa. ainsley: more "fox & friends" coming up. o business s. like the ones we teach here, every day.
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after being indicted on fraud charges. the california representative now slamming his prosecution as a witch-hunt, saying in part, quote: the fact is that there is a culture operating within our justice department that is politically motivate you had. the couple is accused of using 250,000ness campaign funds to pay for personal expenses, then covering it up ohio state football coach urban meyer benched over the mishandling of the assistant coach case. he also apologizes for knowing that he knew about allegations against an assistant coach. zac smith was kept on staff for several years after meyer reportedly learned about the accusations. brian? brian: thanks, jillian. 25 minutes after the hour. an american hero honored by the white house more than 16 years after he made the ultimate sacrifice. get this, leading the charge to rescue a fellow service member in afghanistan, air force technical sergeant john chapman was killed by enemy fire in 2002. >> in this final act of
supreme courage, john gave his life for his fellow warriors. through his extraordinary sacrifice, john helped save more than 20 american service members. our nation is rich with blessings but our greatest blessings of all are the patriots like john. brian: that was just some of the ceremony yesterday. president trump recognizing his bravery posthumously. awarding him the medal of honor. his family in attendance to accept the award on his behalf. with us now this morning are two that were there. sergeant chapman's sister lori long and his mom mary chapman. welcome to all of you. i'm wondering, ivan all these years later, can you ever get over the sadness you feel of not having him here, teri? >> not really but you learn to live around it. he would want life to go on and live life to the fullest. brian: lori, in particular, hearing the president of the
united states outline what he did in his final account of bravery, must have been just awesome. >> it absolutely was. i was just so proud of john there is more to the story but what was said yesterday just warmed my heart. i was thrilled to have it finally happening after all these years. brian: so the story goes, they are in afghanistan, and it turns out there was a man, neil roberts, left behind. they needed volunteers to join the seal team to go in there your brother is a member of the air force. first medal of honor recipient to get in the air force in this active conflict. he volunteers to go in. when they finally go, in he ends up clearing out a bunker by himself, being shot nine times and continuing just to save somebody that he doesn't -- that he barely knows. what's your reaction to that? >> that doesn't surprise me at all.
that's just how john lived his life throughout -- from the time he was a small boy doing the right thing because it's the right thing and something that he has always done. brian: teri, in particular, your son volunteering, what stands out with you about these series of events? when did you start seeing these acts of courage in your son? >> from the time he was a toddler. he was always compassionate toward everyone and would always want to do whatever he could to help them. i mean, he wasn't an angel. he could be a little rascal but on the most part he always cared about others first. brian: when you get the call that your son is a medal of honor recipient, what process did you go through and then as you get invited to the white house, what was the day like? >> the day was absolutely awesome. i mean, there were so many wonderful things happening and seeing all these people coming out to honor john.
and show their love for him. it made my heart really smile. brian: who was in the room, lori, besides you guys? >> all his teammates that -- everyone who could possibly be there. >> childhood friends. >> childhood friends who would have crawled to get there. just to make sure that they were there to honor john, too. brian: technical sergeant john chapman will live on in infamy for his on the battlefield for his courage and timber is tested he stood strong. you have to be proud. >> absolutely. brian: teri and lori thanks so much. congratulations, teri on raising such a great man. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. brian: thanks so much for joining us this morning. meanwhile, the person those two family members just with yesterday was president trump. guess who else was there? ainsley earhardt. more of her exclusive interview with president
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special place as you know. you walk the halls and so many presidents and first ladies have walked those very halls and stood right there. that's outside of the oval office. brian: that's a unique place. i haven't seen an interview there. i love the fact very nice of the earth to give you a beautiful day. ainsley: i know. brian: it's perfect. ainsley: thank you, god. brian: very nice setup. i'm very grateful the president wanted to sit down and get the story straight about all the breaking news and headlines lately. we saw in the last clip we saw him talking about michael cohen and paul manafort and jeff sessions. now you are about to see his reaction mollie tibbetts and ice to deporting the nazi prison guard and will he be impeached in the democrats win. listen to this. ainsley: let's talk about immigration, mollie tibbetts another american killed by illegal alien, just adding fuel to this already controversial immigration subject that you have been outspoken about. what do you see sty those who disagree with your immigration plans?
>> mollie is this beautiful young girl, hot father -- i watched the father, he kept saying i sort of doubted it was going to happen, she is coming back. she just left but she is coming back and i say that's called hope. and it's a beautiful thing in a way. it's hope. but now there is no hope. she was killed by a horrible person that came in from mexico. illegally here. found by ice. our great ice, who is abused by the democrats and the left and without them you might not be sitting here so comfortably right now. ainsley: um-huh. >> i just think it's so sad. we're building the wall. it's already started. we have spent 3.2 billion on it. we are asking for five billion for this year's funding. the wall is going up. a lot of people don't know it. i would like to build it even faster, but dealing with the democrats is very tough. the immigration laws are
horrible. we're doing incredible job. we are doing record breaking job. but we have bad laws. when you have bad laws you can do good but you could do better if you had good laws. change but we have to elect more republicans. ainsley: nazi guard living here in new york in n. queens. ice officials deported him. why was that important for you? that was on your agenda, has been since the beginning. >> i have a lot of jewish friends who said to me about this man living in queens. i grew up in queens. that's where i grew up. and he was a man not just a prison guard, he was a prison guard that supervised the killing of many, many jews. many, many jews. has lived here for decades. and he walks the street of jackson heights. i know jackson heights very well. i walk the same streets. and he -- i don't know, people came up to me and from the beginning of the campaign they tell me about this nazi who lived in who walks the street like he owns the place. now he is an old man, 95 years old. and the obama administration
was unable to pull it off. and frankly, the bush administration was unable to pull it off. dove hiken, a very democrat assembly man from new york. heavy democrat. this is a guy who never heard of a republican, knock he was giving mee such praise. it was so nice. he said thank you, mr. president. it was so nice to watch. frankly because is he a democrat -- i don't care whether is he a republican or democrat -- what he did was something nobody else was able to do. but i have been done many things like that. they don't get reported. they don't get reported. what we're doing for heck is incredible. we are even keeping the remnants of obamacare. we mostly got it killed and we got rid of the individual mandate, but we are getting the remnants of obamacare, the increase is much less than people thought, that's because of us. and we are getting rid of it slowly and putting in new healthcare systems which is a beautiful thing. ainsley: 76 days away from the mid terms, hard to believe. if the democrats take back power, do you believe they will try to impeach you? >> well, you know, i guess it says something like high crimes and all -- i don't know how you can impeach somebody who has done a great job. i will tell you what, if i ever got impeached, i think the market would crash. i think everybody would be very poor because without this thinking, you would see -- you would see numbers that you wouldn't believe in reverse. if hillary clinton got elected. instead of 4.1 up and each point is $3.5 million and 10 million jobs. when i took it over it was at 1. and it was going to be down -- it was going down. i freed up, i got rid you have regulations. the tax cut was a tremendous thing. but even before the tax cut, right from first day i got rid of regulation, i approved the pipelines, 48,000 jobs. but, i did a lot of things. had hillary and the
democrats gotten in. had she been president, you would have had negative growth. we picked up $10 trillion in worth. china, by the way, has gone down $15 trillion, okay? and when i came, in china was a dom nantz force. now, they like me very much. i get along great with president xi. but i said we can no longer give you 500 billion a year on bad trade deals and you see what's happened over the last 90 days. the reason i even waited was because of north korea. i wanted china's help on north korea otherwise i would have done it sooner. china has been a big help on north korea. i said i have to get going now on trade. last year china made 570 -- we had a deficit with china $517 billion. no not going to happen anymore. steve: you were lucky enough to get a 22-minute interview. we are showing you the interview, for the most part in big chunks so you see everything. ainsley: that's right. we did not edit it so
everything the president sat down and told me you are going to see this morning. brian: you caught um with him on a day around 4:00 in the afternoon the day prior paul manafort's campaign manager, michael cohen, a long-time attorney for 10 years. ainsley: mollie tibbetts. brian: all happens at one time. with the michael cohen situation it's still unholding. got to be disconcerning. able to concentrate through. to think about the things michael cohen knows about the organization and the campaign and the president and to think that he has gone all lanny davis which is basically hillary clinton is -- must be really unnerving. ainsley: i'm sure. we got his reaction to all of that news. i was so grateful that he sat down with us after such a crazy news day so we could hear his side of the story. we also asked him is the press the enemy of the people? that's come up in the next chunk. steve: and he is going to actually give himself a grade, right? ainsley: that's right. steve: you will be surprised to here what that is. more of anxiously's exclusive interview with the president of the united
states coming up, including this: > ainsley: what grade do you give yourself so far? steve: i'm telling you, it's going to surprise you. you will see that in the next hour. brian: and alexandria ocasio-cortez is bummed this coffee shop is closing. has anyone told her it's because of policies that she supports? stuart varney promised to walk this way and he did. just like in rehearsal. steve: no coffee? ♪ ♪ oh!
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company on fox business. so, stuart, here's this legendary coffee shop that we have seen in sex in the city that tv show. she loved it. but the policy -- policies she espouses are the ones that essentially closed it down. >> this is a real life example of what happens, what damage can accompany our society whether you have got $15 an hour minimum wage. going to be fewer jobs and this is a classic example of that. ms. ocasio-cortez went back to the coffee shop, she got back there to see her old friends and found out it's about to close. why is it about to close? because it's going to $15 an hour minimum wage. the manager can't afford to run that business with that kind of pricing structure for his labor. it's ironic, isn't it, that alexandria ocasio-cortez supports $15 an hour minimum wage, goes back to where she
was started out in life in the workplace and finds it's closing because of the policies she supports. that's irony any. >> wait a minute that i love is closing because of. this is what the coffee shop said about why they are closing. the times have changed in our industry. the rents are very high and now the minimum wage is going up and we have a huge number of employees. >> by the way, that manager is going to be on my show tomorrow. we have already spoken to him. and he is getting flack on social media because of what he is doing. steve: you know, over the last six months we have heard so much about universal living wage. they tried the minimum wage out in portland, oregon where they mandated everybody in restaurants get a certain amount, which had never been the case, and it has completely boomer ranged on them. >> forgive me for using strong language but i think this is a tragedy. we will never know how many thousands or millions of youngsters do not get their
start in the workplace because they have been priced out of it we're pricing out entry level jones. there is no such thing as a entry level job any longer. if you have a job, it has to pay for a family four. it's got to be a living wage. what about those people that want to get in on the ground floor, learn a few skills. they are prepared to take a lower price per hour just to get in and get started. it's a tragedy that those people will not be getting those jobs. what shame. steve: i don't think your point of view regarding the economy is the same as a socialist, just saying. >> well strake about that isn't it? [laughter] >> i'm american. i'm not a socialist. steve: you are now. >> i am now, that's right. steve: stuart, we will be watching for that interview tomorrow and watching over on fox business this morning at 9:00 a.m. >> thank you very much, steve. appreciate it thank you. steve: coming up straight ahead on this thursday more of ainsley's exclusive one-on-one interview from the rose garden with president trump. his thoughts on michael cone, paul manafort and the attorney general jeff
sessions and his future straight ahead. plus, todd piro takes to the skies with the world famous air force thunder bird. he is back on the ground this morning for the "fox & friends" all-american road trip. that is coming up from the rv next. ♪ arms around me baby ♪ i just want to fly ♪ what you want ♪ get your arms around me baby ♪ put your arms around me the same with yours. preparation h. get comfortable with it.
in -- todd: no better way to travel across our great land than an rv. meet one of our two rides this week. this is the winnebago that win . great for going to check out air shows which brings me to our second ride of the week this f-16 fighting falcon. it, too is small. it, too, packs punch. its mission as the air force says is to drop warheads on foreheads. it also gave me the thrill of a lifetime time to take this road trip from the ground to the sky thunder bird. todd: that was pretty okay maybe i can fly with them? >> the thunder birds represent the national guard and airmen deployed around the world. todd: why do you do air shows. >> three fold to recruit,
retain and inspire. we travel across the america represent what the air force is doing every day. you will get to experience something not many get to do strap into f-16 fighting falcon and go on the ride of your life. how are you feeling today. >> nerves. last week in dollywood. the dollywood roller coaster. >> gotcha. todd: i keep hearing this is going to be an athletic event i haven't done workout since 1995 soccer practice. >> you will crush it. they say you can't take your -- thunder bird media. piro maniac. this probably works. >>e>> todd, you ready to go? >> as ready as i will be. >> actually on there, how cool is that? that's awesome. >> it's go-time.
>> this is amazing. this is just amazing. unbelievable. >> pulled over 6 gs still no small feat. [cheers] >> todd, welcome back to the earth here. everyone bring it in. >> it's an experience i will never forget. i'm speechless. and that is rare. ♪ and steve and ainsley, you know that our job is to be able to describe things. i'm still speechless 48 hours later both on the physical side of it to explain what g force feels like 6.4 gs, in fact, but also the emotional experience, the team aspect
of what i saw. it's not just the pilot i went up with, it's 130 men and women who make the thunder birds what they're. their representation of the air force, which is obviously much larger. it is one big team that defends our skies and defends our nation. i was able to be a partly of it and i cannot fully describe what it was like. steve: fantastic. >> besides saying it was awesome. ainsley: did you get sick, todd? >> ainsley, let's just say so far on our all-american summer radio road trip i'm 0-2 when it comes to intestinal fortitude. i'm hoping next week in st. augustine the ghost tour is different. find out more about that foxnews.com/road trip. fingers crossed for next week. steve: todd, i think you should stay in the rv and not get out of it places safer down on earth. steve: nicely done. todd: might be a smart move. ainsley: thanks, todd. more of our exclusive interview with president trump including a look back at his term.
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reifers to the u.s.' friction with turkey which would show he has been alive for the last week or. so. steve: in the meantime, i don't know if you were watching the last couple of days have been big news days. it was so perfect, the timing that you had arranged an interview with the president. ainsley: that's right. i'm grateful he sat down with us to get the record straight. hear from his side about what he thought about paul manafort and michael cohen and jeff sessions. we will air the entire interview. we have already been doing that this morning. we didn't edit out anything he said. we are showing you in different chunks. this what you are about to see is 12 minutes about talking about paul manafort michael cohen and jeff sessions. listen. ainsley: mr. president, thanks for sitting down with me. how are you doing? >> i'm doing great. we had incredible rally last night in west virginia. it was beautiful. tremendous crowd. and i think we are going to win a race, a big race over there. and i guess you could say that our numbers in winning, whether it's for the senate or for congress or for
governor has been very good. ainsley: how is our country's first lady doing and how are your children. >> she is doing great. she is a terrific woman. she goes through a lot with all this publicity but she is a terrific woman. she is doing great. ainsley: how do you handle all of that? >> well, it's part of my life. i guess my whole life has been this way. somebody said oh, gee, this is always such controversy. and i don't know, i have always had controversy in my life. and i have always succeeded. i have always won. it was controversial when i ran and i won and now the country is doing better than it's ever done. we have the best economy we have ever had. in the history of our country. more jobs today, literally today we have more jobs, more people working in the united states than ever before in the history of our country. black unemployment, asian unemployment. women unemployment. hispanic unemployment. historic lows. it's been an amazing thing. and, you know, unfortunately live the media never coforts cos
that they don't like to cover that type of thing. they like to cover nonsense. it's one of those things. ainsley: speaking of, yesterday, huge news day. a lot breaking today as well. michael cohen, tell me about your relationship with him. >> well, he was a lawyer for me for one of many, you know, they always say the lawyer and then they like to add the fixer. well, i don't know if he is a fixer. i don't know where that term came from. but, he has been a lawyer for me. didn't do big deals. did small deals. not somebody that was with me that much. you know, they make it sound like i didn't live without him. i stud michael cohen very well. he -- turned out he wasn't a very good lawyer, frankly, but he was somebody that was probably with me for about 10 years. i would see him sometimes. when i had deals, i had outside lawyers and i have a lot of inside lawyers, too, in addition to michael. i always found him to be a nice guy. ainsley: he said one story said you didn't know anything about the payments. now he is saying that you directed him to make these
payments. did you direct him to make the payments? >> he made the deals. he made the deals. by the way, he pled to two counts that aren't a crime which nobody understands. i watched a number of shows, sometimes you get pretty good information by watching shows. those two counts aren't even a crime. they weren't campaign finance. ainsley: did you know about the payments? >> later on i knew. later on, but you have to understand, ainsley, what he did and they weren't taken out of campaign finance, that's a big thing. that's a much bigger thing. did they come out of campaign? they didn't come out of the campaign. they came from me. i tweeted about it i don't know if you know but i tweeted about the payments but they didn't come out of campaign. in fact, my first question, when i heard about it was did they come out of the campaign because that could be a little dicey. and they didn't come out of the campaign. and that's big. but think weren't -- that's not -- it's not even a campaign violation. if you look at president obama, he had a massive
campaign violation but he had a different attorney general and they viewed it a lot differently. you know, we have somebody that they seem to like to go after a lot of republicans. but, he settled his very easily. in fact, i put that out fairly recently so obama had it. other people have it almost everybody that runs for office has campaign violations. but, what michael cohen pled to weren't even campaign related. they weren't crimes. ainsley: why is he doing this? he is your attorney. >> he made a great deal. he was in another business totally unrelated to me where i guess there was fraud involved and loans and taxicabs and all sorts of things. nothing to do with me because he had an outside business. he worked for me. you could really say it was more or less part time. he had other businesses. he had other clients. i'm not his only clients. and michael cohen had, i guess, a taxi business and somebody reported him for some things in his taxi
business. and that's how this started. and they put the two counts of campaign violations in there but a lot of lawyers on television and also lawyers that i have seen that they are not even crimes. ainsley: if you are saying payments are not illegal, then why we even -- why would he use that information for a plea deal? >> because he makes a better deal when he uses me like everybody else. one of the reasons i respect paul manafort so much is he went through that trial. they make up stories. people make up stories. this whole thing about flipping, they call it, i know all about flipping for 30, 40 years i have been watching flippers. everything is wonderful and then they get 10 years in jail and they flip on whoever the next highest one is. or as high as you can go. it almost ought to be outlawed. it's not fair. because if somebody is going to give -- spend five years like michael cohen or 10 years or 15 years in jail because of a taxicab
industry, because he defrauded some bank, the last two were the tiny ones, campaign violations are considered not a big deal, frankly. but, if somebody defrauded a bank and he is going to get 10 years in jail or 20 years in jail, but if you can say something bad about donald trump, and you will go down to two years or three years, which is the deal he made, in all fairness to him, most people are going to do that. and i have seen it many times. i have had many friends involved in this stuff. it's called flipping and it almost ought to be illegal. you get 10 years in jail. but, if you say bad things about somebody, in other words, make up stories if you don't know, make up stories, they just make up lies. alan dershowitz said compose, right? they make up lies. i have seen testimony times. they make up things and now they go from 10 years to they're a national hero. they have a statue erected in their honor. it's not a fair thing. but, that's why he did it he made a very good deal. i mean, for what he did. but i will tell you somebody
made a better deal awan, the it guy for schultz. congresswoman schultz. he had all the information on democrats. he had all information on everybody. he went to jail holding the hands of the justice department and the fbi. they sat there together. they were smiling and laughing. and he got nothing. and he stole money. and he had more information on corruption of the democrats than anybody. and they don't even have his computers and his servers. they just gave him nothing. you saw that. it was on your show. they gave him nothing, nothing. ainsley: double standard? >> double standard? i mean, he was worse than anybody, in my opinion. he got nothing. he is a democrat. he got nothing. the reason he got nothing because the dems are very strong in the justice department. i put an attorney general that never took control of the justice department, jeff sessions. never took control of the justice department.
and it's sort of an incredible thing. we have this country going so well. mike pompeo is doing incredibly, all of my people they are doing incredibly. but the whole thing with going on with justice and fbi, when you see strzok and his lover, lisa page. when you see comey with all the lies that he has told, when you see mueller with the conflicts, he is so conflicted. comey is his best friend. he had a really nasty business transaction with me, which he never reported. i have been talking about he never reports it. i mean, you look at the bad things, he wanted the fbi job that christopher wray has. christopher wray was recommended by rosenstein. the fbi, i will tell you what, if you took a poll in the fbi, i guarantee you one thing, i would do very well. ainsley: are you considering pardoning paul manafort? >> i have great respect for what he has done in terms of
what he has gone through. you know, he worked for ronald reagan for years. he worked for bob doll, he worked, i guess his firm worked for mccain he worked for many people. all the charges they threw against him every lobbyist in washington probably does. if you look at hillary clinton's person, you take a look at the people that worked for hillary clinton, i mean, look at the crimes that clinton did with the emails and she deletes 33,000 emails after she gets a subpoena from congress and this justice department does nothing about it? all of the other crimes. look at podesta. podesta waste suppose you had to be manafort on steroids think made him close up his firm. he was going to be indicted the next day, we heard. never happened. instead they go after manafort. so, look i didn't know man
ford well. he wasn't with the campaign long. they got him on things totally unrelated to the campaign. by the way they got cohen on things totally unreality to the campaign. i'm not involved. i'm not charged with anything. people don't like to say that but i wasn't charged. when you look at the corruption on the other side, and they refuse to look at anything. when you don't look at strzok where he said basically we are going to take out the president, the insurance policy and everything else. look at lisa page, the two lovers back and forth with these horrible, these horrible texts. you look at the kind of talk going on about it's really a subversion. and our justice department doesn't do anything about it. people say oh, but you appointed jeff sessions. i said i did. but, i really feel as long as this is going out, i don't have to do this but i will stay uninvolved and maybe that's the best thing to do. ainsley: mr. president, a lot of people are frustrated a lot of your supporters are frustrated with the doj and jeff sessions.
rumors you have will fire him after the mid terms and rosenstein. they also want these documents. they are wondering if you will use your power to get these documents released? >> at the right time i think i have to do the documents. i didn't want to. but i think i'm going to have to. there is such corruption. before i got here. it's from before i got here. it's the obama administration. and you look at what happened, they surveilled my campaign. it's very simple. the fisa report. the phony. ainsley: rosenstein signed the last fisa report. >> it bothers me. it has always bothered me. ainsley: will you fire him? will you fire sessions. >> as i said i wanted to stay uninvolved when everybody sees what's happened in the justice department. i put justice in quotes. jeff sessions recused himself which he shouldn't have done. or he should have told me. even my enemies say that jeff sessions should have told you that he was going to recuse himself and then you wouldn't have put him in. he took the job and then he said i'm going to recuse
myself. i said what kind of a man is this? by the way, he was on the campaign. the only reason i gave him the job because i felt loyalty. he was an original supporter. he was on the campaign. he knows there was no collusion. and what's come out of manafort? no collusion. what's come out of michael cohen? no collusion. this is stuff that they got. ainsley: right. >> how about with michael cohen in all fairness to him, they raid his office at 6:00 in the morning? and how about with manafort, they raid his home at like 5:00 in the morning, i think, on a weekend and his wife is in bed and they go in with guns? ainsley: yes. >> this isn't al capone. steve: a lot of news has broken right there. very clearly the president of the united states says michael cohen's actions were not crimes. he has been described as a fixer by others. he says he worked essentially part time for me. i had a lot of lawyers. ainsley: the payout money came from him. not the campaign.
he said so it is not a campaign violation. what also stuck out, he never said that he was going to pardon paul manafort it sounded like to me might be considering it he never said and he never said no. he really didn't answer the question. brian: charges paul manafort charges are real. he pardon something clearly looks as though overwhelming evidence he did. especially the next trial coming up. that's pretty much the issue. he is not pardoning from anything he did for him he is doing it for things that have nothing to do with him. that might be where the rubber hits the road with republicans. you don't want to alien nate republicans because what do you have in the house and senate? meanwhile -- do you want to audit anything? ainsley: the next chunk, his interview, i asked him is the press the enemy of the people and we also asked him what's the grade you would give yourself? steve: um. brian: michael cohen faces years in prison for violating campaign finance
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ainsley, what he did and they weren't taken out of campaign finance. that's a big thing. that's a much bigger thing, did they come out of campaign? they didn't come out of the campaign. they came from me. steve: president trump telling ainsley, answering questions about payments he made from his 2016 campaign, but former president obama's 2008 campaign failed to disclose contributions and they only faced a fine here to weigh in said not crime; is that correct? >> that is 100 percent correct. he made a payment not related to the campaign and there was no crime there whatsoever. as i understand it legal segments are not campaign contributions; is that accurate? >> that is accurate. in this context it's not accurate because it was related to something not directly about the campaign it was a personal expense, a
business expense. this happens all the time and, in fact, jo john edwards had his campaign contributor. steve: he did. and president obama during his campaign there were hundreds of thousands of dollars worthy of violations and he just got a fine. >> he got a fine, which is not unusual for the federal election commission. his error there was reporting those late. so, in the bigger picture, you know, that doesn't bother me so much. what does bother me is that we had exposed last year that $17 million over the course of 20 years was paid out by a congressional hush fund to settle -- to settle sexual abuse or mismanagement issues. and that's clearly not a campaign violation. steve: interesting stuff. mark, we thank you for joining us live with your point of view on what the president is telling ainsley. all right. thank you, sir. >> thanks, steve. steve: coming up, more of ainsley's exclusive
interview with president trump, including this. >> the press. is the press the enemy of the people? steve: his answer straight ahead. plus one thousand dollars bonus cash.
day after fictional silent sam was fell in north carolina. vice president pence helps a congressman's wife. can you see belinda falling to the ground in texas. she was not hurt. what a gentlemanly act there. brian? brian: thanks, jillian. 25 minutes after the hour. college students pay are more than ever for their education. 200 percent increase. and what are they getting for their money? some very unique class. some of the most popular courses at these universities are cropping up all around the country like, for example, politicizing beyonce psychology and the good life. sociology of miley cyrus when she was hannah montana. i believe that's when it starts and how to win a beauty pageant which by the way i know. is this really what higher education looks like in the future? here to react editor and chief of campus reform.org lawrence jones. lawrence, great to see you.
>> thanks for having me. >> you want to get magna cum laude majoring in beyonce could pay off. >> nobody loves beyonce more than me. i love her as a person and entertainer. guess what? that's not what i'm going to school for trying to get a career something that pays me and get out of poverty and that whole thing. the cost of college has increased over 200 pours over the last 30 years. part of it is because they are taking all these crazy courses because it helps them in their whole, you know, their mood and the coddling. and so what we have been reporting on at campus reform is that the increase of these courses that don't contribute to work life once they graduate is part of the cost. brian: i heard rutgers there is a lot of people who sign up for that course. >> there is not a lack of young people -- the problem is a lot of these social science degrees, the market is saturated, brian there is a lot of openings for math
and science out there. even when they release the job numbers, a lot of those opening jobs were in math and science. when it comes to social science, history and all this stuff, not de grading it it's not enough jobs there. brian: just reminds me a little bit what ivanka was talking about and mike rowe talking about. getting people to think for themselves. maybe college is not for me but skills and a career. we need plumbers and electricians. >> i don't know if you looked at your last plumbing bill or electric bill they get paid very well. so much of the electricians even get paid 6 figures. i'm not saying that they cannot take courses to have fun but at the end of the day they have got to look at the bottom line. not their emotions but what they do when they get in the workforce. brian: yale psychology and the good life. fascinating. skidmore the sociology of miley cyrus and oberlin how to win a beauty pageant. death in america, how will
you die? there is uplifting class. >> i'm sure your life is not going to be good when you can't go into the workforce and find a job. you can have fun but look at the long-term strategy. like i said i love beyonce but if you want to learn her culture go to her concert. don't go into the classroom to learn about beyonce. brian: crazy courses in college. lawrence jones editor in chief. >> send us lots of tips when you see this crazy information contact us at campus reform.org. brian: get an a in beyonce and miley cyrus fail. 20 minutes after the hour, lawrence, by the way, can we get a conversation on, this is this true, joel, he will be hosting outnumbered. that will be true at 12:00. you won't be wearing a bow tie or not? >> no bow tie. meanwhile the video is troubling. you have an officer begging for help as a suspect tries to grab his gun. instead of jumping into action everybody stood by. and more of ainsley's
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what's the chunk? i said 80%. it's a lot. it's a lot. if i do something well, it's not reported. other than in the 20%. "new york times" cannot write a good story about me. they are crazed. they are like lunatics, if i do something well, i often joke i will do some great things like meeting with kim jong un. that was a great success. hey, they have been working on this for so many years and they got nothing. i just left, what, three months ago or less, i left singapore you had no missiles shot, no rockets shot no. nuclear testing and we got back our hostages and i have a good relationship with them. you know, we have a good chemicals together. i don't know if that's good or bad. we have a good chemicals. i spoke with prime minister abe of japan this morning. he started the call by saying i want to thank you for the great job that you
have done with north korea. he said we haven't had missiles shot over japan in so long the people of japan feel safe. mr. president, i want to thank you for the great job have you done with north korea. they don't feel that hostility. when i took over president obama thought we would have to go to war with north korea. i asked him did you ever speak to kim jong un? he said no. i said wouldn't it be a good thing to give a shot? if you remember, the only thing they got me on, they said he spoke, he met. look, i didn't give him anything. he has nothing except sanctions, okay. very heavy sanctions on north korea. put them on yesterday because we would like it to go faster. i didn't give him anything. never forget talk about the fake news. they said donald trump met-out first day was incredible. nobody believed i was able to do it. obama couldn't get a
meeting. clinton couldn't get a meeting. bush couldn't get a meeting, you know, with the family. nobody could get a meeting. and this one is tougher than the father. i say that with respect, but he is tougher than the father and tougher than the grandfather they couldn't get a meeting. i got a meeting. even make news said it was unbelievable. five or six hours went by and they had to get their narrative straight and they said, very interesting. donald trump agreed to meet. that was supposed to be like a loss. it was a great success. my meeting with putin was a tremendous success. i got killed by the fake news. they wanted me to go up and punch him in the face. i said i want to get along with russia. i want to get along with everybody. they said i was too rush on north korea. remember that? too rough. but with putin they said i was too soft. my meeting with putin was a tremendous success, syria, ukraine and if you look at
crimea, that was given away by president obama. it has nothing to do with me. nobody wants to mention that we have had tremendous success and just to finish. nato, i raised hundreds of billions of dollars from these countries that weren't paying. they were delinquent. they weren't paying their bills. the press doesn't like to talk about that. the press talks about the fact that i insulted a lot of the leaders because i was strong on the fact that they had to pay. i said no, the united states is not going to be paying your bills. with that i'm having a good time. ainsley: guys, what's your take away from that. brian: a couple things. everything is describing is not about him it's the country. trump organization doesn't get bigger. they don't get anything -- what he is like to do is make it safer, grow the economy, is he trying to make our allies act like true allies. partnership. we are on the threshold of cutting a deal with mexico. canada has been watching. nafta deal. china is here trying to
renegotiate. ask yourself, what's his benefit? none personally, he gave away his salary. is he doing it to rebalance american trade. that's what people like. steve: you look at all that good news that he feels is not being covered and that's why he feels like -- that's where fake news came from. in people. interesting to describe that chunk as 80%, which he apparently thinks is fake news. is not accurate. is not favorable toward him. i don't know that his answer is going to the people in the press and others who think that that, you know, enemy of the people think is inflammatory and he should not use it. it sounds like is he going to continue to use it whether people like it or not. brian: and what bothers him, i think, too. when you come to illegal immigrant story murdering this 20-year-old jogger out of iowa when the press doesn't want to write it's an illegal immigrant here and that's exactly what they adopt to do on immigration. they leave that out of
headlines or the story or claim people are politicizing it rather than recognizing it. ainsley: we did is ask him with mollie tibbetts and what he thought about the arrest of that illegal immigrant. we will play that section of the interview next hour. brian: by the way are you making all these decisions look how control you are. ainsley: wonderful teammates make those decisions and tells me: talk about himself giving a grade and always ask what is the grade you would give yourself right now? and this is his response. what grade do you give yourself so far? >> >> so, i give myself an a plus. i don't think any president has ever done. two years biggest tax cuts in history. soon to be two unbelievable supreme court justices. i'm sure that justice kavanaugh will be approved. justice gorsuch has been a star. you look at all of the things we have done with regulations. the economy is the best it has ever been in history. the only thing i'm doing bad
in is the press doesn't cover me fairly. i thought after i won -- they killed me during the campaign. just killed me. one good thing about winning i have showed them. so now i'm going to get fair press. guess what? it got worse. it's worse. so the press does this. i would honestly give myself an a plus and so would many other people. you go to the people of west virginia, you saw them last night, that went to a state that was down and out and now it's flourishing. you go to some of these states that were down and out and now they are doing fantastically well. when i finish the trade deals, you watch what happens for our farmers which have been going down for 15 years. you watch what happens. they are are going to be very, very happy. they are going to be very wealthy. ainsley: a plus. write us and let us know what you think his grade is friends@foxnews.com. steve: we when we interviewed him in february of 2017 you asked him that question, how we grade himself and he said for achievement i would give myself an a but for communication and getting
the word out he said he would give himself a c at that point. so it's interesting. given he has actually been able, to he says achieve things. he is now at an a plus. brian: that's something that hasn't come with nancy pelosi. nancy pelosi says we are doing a lot of great things we just don't brag enough about it so, again, they -- he has learned to brag about it so there you go. these people are just covering. ainsley: hand it over to jillian for more headlines. jillian: good morning to you. let's start with this. a officer begs by standers including a female security guard to put down the phone and help. watch this. >> why did you do that. >> oh my god. [screams] >> >> well, that woman security guard now out of a job after the viral video caught her recording the whole thing and not helping. of the suspect 17-year-old
da von miller is charged with disarming a police officer, education secretary betsy de vos reportedly considering letting school districts use federal funding to buy guns. that's according to the "new york times." fox news reached out to the department of education and they say, quote: the department is constantly considering and evaluating policy issues, particularly issues related to school safety. secretary nor the department issues opinions on hypothetical scenarios. not broadcasting our national anthem during monday night football the network tells "u.s.a. today" they don't plan to show it and haven't for years. fox sports will air during veterans day and playoffs. it follows espn's announcement they will not show the star-spangled banner before games. president trump urging supporters to sign a petition against espn's decision calling it, quote. finally surrendered to the politically correct liberal mob. send it back to you. steve: so no anthems on cbs.
brian: fox going to go game to game we don't know for sure we about to find out. they are going to do thursday night football from this very studio in new york city. steve: there you go. outside of the studio where they're going to be adam klotz wute with the weather whee it was rain ago little while ago. >> it was raining. did you get rained on a little bit. >> yes. adam: i came out here and got rid of it i might get a cheer for that or something. [cheers] adam: i came out here and got rid of that rain moved on through the area. it's dry out here. that's not the case everywhere. we are tracking a big storm across big portions of the pacific. this is hurricane lane category 4 storm. winds 145 miles per hour. this one is not expected to get real close to land until late tonight into early tomorrow morning. good thing about this system, guys, winding down. stale big storm. might not make landfall but it's going to be weakening, by the time it gets parallel with honolulu on friday
winds should be down make it just a category 1 storm. but that's going to be one we are paying very close attention. to say out here i think everybody is pleased make america great again. everybody is pleased that it's no longer raining. back to you guys. steve: adam, thank you very much. still ahead on this very busy thursday. more of ainsley's exclusive interview with president trump. ainsley: are you considering pardoning paul manafort? steve: you're going to want to hear that answer and it's coming up. brian: plus one boat company may have to lay off workers because of tariffs. they are trying it a new strategy to keep everyone afloat. gerri willis joins to us explain. ♪ ♪ ♪ let's fly, let's fly away ♪
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♪ jillian: good morning to you and welcome back. time for quick headlines, violence erupting near a popular tourist destination for americans in mexico. 8 bodies found on the streets of cancun. this as news is breaking the state department issuing an update travel advisory for cancun. warning travelers to be careful driving at night and be extra vigilant when using atms, passengers watch in horror as airplane engine burst into flames moments after takeoff. look at that video. you can check out the orange glow outside the windows of the red wing's flight out of russia. pilots turned the plane around and landed safely. nobody was hurt, thankfully. ainsley? ainsley: thank goodness, wow. a large boat maker down in florida may soon cut its workforce in the wake of the new tariffs. steve: before they start laying off employees, the company wants to try growing their business here in the united states. fox business network gerri willis is live at the regal
marine industries in florida with more on the plan. hey, gerri. >> that's right. hey guys ainsley, steve good morning. these folks start early, 5:00 a.m. take a look at this facility. a recreational boat facility. we are regal boats. this is an american made, american owned company for three generations. and every 92 minutes, one of these babies, one of these babies right here gets kicked off the production floor and they are pumping these boats out. but this industry is under incredible pressure from retaliatory tariffs from china, from the eu, canada, mexico that is impacting their business. the eu tariffs as high as 25%. if they make one of these boats for $100,000 they sell it eu buyer. it cost $125,000. so, this industry under duress right now. we talked to the ceo this morning. he says he is not taking any action right now. but he is thinking about it i want to show you take a look at this.
you can see this is a family-owned company. made in the u.s.a. what most people have no idea about though is they look at these boats is that 95% of the boats on the water in the u.s. get this made in the u.s.a. it's quintessentially an american industry. the ceo also told me that they have had orders cancel all canada, all eu orders have been cancelled while this whole tariff issue plays out. so we are going to be talking to him a little later in the day. let me tell you, this is fascinating. american made, american owned for 49 years. the cook family has owned this company and it's just amazing what they are doing here. we'll keep an eye on it back to you. steve: all right, gerri, thank you very much. if anybody is in the market for a boat because they are trying to grow the boat business in the united states. check out the regal line, it looks great. ainsley: thanks so much, gerri. we have more of that exclusive interview with president trump, including his thoughts on michael cohen.
now he is saying that you directed him to make these payments. did you direct him to make these payments? >> he made the deal. ainsley: his full answer coming up. steve: plus this liberal millionaire is running for congress and he wants to tax families who have more than two kids. charlie hurt called him the antihuman candidate. his story coming up. ♪ head games i can't take it anymore ♪ head games ♪ i don't want to play those ♪ head games. they work togetherf doing important stuff. the hitch? like you, your cells get hungry. feed them... with centrum micronutrients. restoring your awesome, daily. centrum. feed your cells. welcome to tide pods talk with gronk.
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families for having more than two children. brian: it's about time. charlie hurt calls him the anti human candidate in an op-ed. it's an interesting platform. >> you think? famous for having democrats who are pro-life democrats that don't follow exactly in line with the rest of the party. this group the wallace global fund which is the family charity for that donated to these literally millions of dollars to population control group taxing to the hilt any family that has more than two children and get this, this is my favorite part. the charge that they level against these people is irresponsible breeding. it just doesn't seem like a real winner to me. brian: hard to put on a bumper sticker. [laughter] >> i don't know i think his opponent can put it on a pretty good bumper sticker.
ainsley: call him antihuman candidate anti-third child and fourth child. if you do have a big family you will be taxed to the hilt. why are the democrats endorsing this guy? why is he their choice? >> i think what they liked about him is that he is extremely rich and the party that claims to represent the poor really likes rich candidates because that means they can fund themselves. this is pennsylvania first district of pennsylvania. all the experts say it should be in play, held by a republican. should be opportunity for democrats to take it over but, you know, i just sort of hard to see how that happens with a gik like this. ainsley: did he advocate or did his foundation donate. >> his campaign is quickly distancing themselves from this. while ran the organization gave $7 million to this
organization. brian: by the way reached out to wallace's office for a statement and have not heard back. set grandson of franklin wallace. brian: i'm sure his ancestors are extremely proud. resolution on the democratic side for this whole we got the president now we're going to impeach him. how real is this? >> i think they are very serious about it. but, and you have a lot of people in the party who really do want to see this happen but i don't think that -- i think the truth of the matter is it's a good political tactic for them. it's a good way to gin up their base. a lot of people in their base that rex sighted -- get excited by this. brian: bottom line it gins up the base for the republicans. it gets them motivated. >> independents too. it turns independents off. ainsley: we did ask the president about it in that exclusive one-on-one interview. we will have his reaction coming up in the next hour. brian: yes. one-on-one interview with ainsley is coming up.
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to defend. ainsley: one-on-one with the president, we sat outside and had about a 22-minute conversation about the news of the day. so we are going to show you the entire interview, what we have done is we have broken into chunks and this is the first chunk that deals with how he's doing, how melania is doing, paul manafort and jeff sessions. >> thank you so much for sitting down with me, how are you doing? >> i'm doing great, we had incredible rally last night in west virginia, it was beautiful, tremendous crowd and we will win a big race over there and i guess you could say that our numbers in winning whether it's for the senate or for congress or for governor has been very good. ainsley: how is our country's first lady doing? >> she's doing great, terrific woman, she goes through a lot with all of the publicity but she's a terrific woman, she's doing great. ainsley: how do you handle all of that?
>> well, it's part of my life, i guess my whole life has been this way. everybody says, this is controversy and i don't know, i've always had controversy in my life and i've always succeeded and i've always won. we have the best economy in the history of our country and more jobs today, literally today, more jobs, more people working in the united states than ever before in the history of our country, black unemployment, asian unemployment, women unemployment, hispanic unemployment, historic lows. it's been amazing thing and, you know, unfortunately the media never covers it. they don't like to cover that kind of thing, they cover nonsense. ainsley: yeah, yesterday huge news day, a lot breaking today as well, michael cohen, tell me about your relationship with him. >> well, he was a lawyer for me for one of many, you know, they
always say the lawyer and then they like to add the fixer, i don't know where that term came from, he didn't do big deals, small deals, not somebody that was with me that much, they make it sound like i didn't live without him, i understood michael cohen very well, turned out not to be good lawyer, frankly, he was probably that was with me for about ten years and i would see him sometimes, but when i had deals and big deals i had outside lawyers and inside lawyers too in addition to michael. i always found him to be nice guy. ainsley: he said one story, you didn't know anything about the payment and now you're saying that you directed him to make the payments, did you direct -- >> he made the deals, by the way, he pled to two accounts that aren't a crime which nobody understands. i watched a number of shows, sometimes you get pretty good
information by watching shows, those two weren't crimes. ainsley: did you knew about the payments in. >> later on, later on. you have to understand, ainsley, what he did ant weren't taken out of campaign finance, that's the bigger thing, did they came out of campaign, they came from me and i tweeted about it, i don't know if you know, i tweeted about the payments, but they didn't come out of campaign, in fact, my first question when i heard about it was did they come out of the campaign because that could be a little dicey and they didn't come out of the campaign and that's fake. but they weren't -- it's not even campaign violation. you look at president obama he had a massive campaign violation, but he had a different attorney general and they viewed it a lot differently. we have somebody that they like to go after a lot of republicans, but he settled his
very easily, in fact, i put that out fairly recently, so obama had it, other people have it, almost everybody that runs for office has campaign violations but what michael cohen pled to weren't even campaign related. they weren't crimes. ainsley: why is he doing that? >> he made a great deal. he was in another business totally unrelated to me where i guess there was fraud involved and loans and tampa tampa -- tae worked for me more or less part time, he had other businesses, he had other clients, i'm not his only client. michael cohen had a, the taxi business and that's how they it started, they put campaign violations in there but a lot of lawyers on television and also lawyers that i have seen that
are not even crimes. ainsley: if you're saying the payments, if they are not illegal, why would he use that information for a plead deal? >> he makes a better deal when he uses me like everybody else. one of the reasons i respect paul manafort so much, he went through the trial. they make up stories, people make up stories. the whole thing about flipping they call it, i know all about flipping for 30, 40 years, i have been watching flippers, everything is wonderful and then they get 10 years in jail and they flip on whoever the next highest one is or as highest you can two. it almost ought to be outlawed. it's not fair. if somebody is going spend 5 years or 10 years or 15 years because of taxi cab industry, he defrauded some bank, the last two were the typy ones, campaign violations are considered not a big deal frankly. but if somebody defrauded the bank and he's going 10 years in jail or 20 years and if you can
say something bad about donald trump and go back to 2 years or 3 years which is the deal he made n all fairness to him, most people are going to do that and i've seen it many times, i've had many friends involved in this stuff, it's called flipping and it almost ought to be illegally. you get 10 years in jail but if you say bad things, make up stories if you don't know, make up stories, they make up lies, allen dershowitz said compose, make up lies, i have seen it many times, make up things and now they go from 10 years to national hero, they have a statute erected in their honor. it's not a fair thing and that's why it's a big deal for what he did. the it guy to congressman schultz, all the information,
they sat there together, they were smiling and laughing, they got nothing, he stole money, had more information on corruption of the democrats or anybody, they don't even have computers and his computers, they just -- you saw that, it was on your show, they gave nothing, nothing. >> double standard? >> double standard, he was worst than anybody in my opinion. he got nothing, he's a democrat. he got nothing. the reason he got nothing is because the dems are very strong in the justice department. i put in attorney general that never took control of the justice department, jeff sessions, never took control of the justice department and sort of an incredible thing. we have the country going so well, mike pompeo is doing incredibly, all of my people are doing incredibly, but the whole thing with going on with the justice and fbi, when you see
strzok and his lover hissa -- lisa page and when you see comey with all the lies and you see mueller, he's so conflicted. comey is his best friend. he had a really nasty business transaction with me which he never reported. i've been talking about it, he never reports it. you look at the bad things, he was an fbi and was recommended by rosenstein. the fbi -- if you took a poll in the fbi, i guaranty you one thing, i would do very well. ainsley: are you considering pardoning paul manafort? >> i have great respect for what he's done in terms of what he gone through. you know he worked for ronald reagan and bob dole, i guess -- his firm worked for mccain, he worked for many, many people, many, many years, what he did,
some of the charges they threw against him, every consultant, every lobbyist in washington probably does. if you look at hillary clinton's person, you take a look at the people that worked for hillary clinton, look at the crimes that clinton did with the emails and she deletes 33,000 emails after she gets subpoena from congress and this justice department does nothing about it and all of the other crimes that they've done and they -- look at podesta, podesta was supposed to be manafort on steroids, they made him close up his firm, he was going to be indicted the next day we heard, never happened. instead they go after manafort. so, look, i didn't know manafort well, he wasn't in campaign long. they got him on things unrelated to campaign. by the way, they got cohen unremitted -- unrelated with the campaign. i wasn't charged with anything,
people don't like to say, when you look at the corruption, they refuse to look at anything, when you don't look at strzok when he said basically we will take out the president, the insurance policy and everything else, you look at lisa page, two lovers with the horrible, horrible texts, you look at the kind of talk going on about it's subversion and our justice doesn't do anything about it, people say, but you appointed jeff sessions, i said i did, but i really feel as long as this is going out, i don't have to do this but i will stay uninvolved and maybe that's the best thing to do. ainsley: a lot of people are frustrated, a lot of supporters are frustrated with doj, jeff sessions, a lot of rumors that you will fire after midterms and will you get power of release. >> at the right time i will do the documents, i didn't want to, there's such corruption, before
i got here, it's before i got here, it's the obama administration and you look at what happened, they surveilled my campaign. it's very simple. the fisa report, the phoney -- ainsley: rosenstein signed the last fisa report. >> it's always bothered. ainsley: would you fire him? >> as i said i wanted to stay uninvolved but when everybody sees what's going on in the justice department, now put justice with quotes, it's a very bad day, jeff sessions rescued himself which he shouldn't have done or should have told me, even enemies say that jeff sessions should have told you that he was going to recuse himself and you wouldn't have put him in. he took the job and then he said i'm going recuse myself. i said what kind of a man is this, and by the way, he was on the campaign, you know, the only reason i gave him the job because i felt loyalty, he was an original supporter, he was on the campaign, he knows that there was no collusion.
and what's come out of manafort, no collusion, what's come out of michael cohen, no collusion. this is stuff that they got. how about with michael cohen, they raid his office at 6:00 o'clock in the morning and how about with manafort, they raid his home at like 5:00 in the morning even on the weekend and his wife is in bed and they go in with guns, this isn't al capone. steve: made a lot of news and in listening to it again, the president said something very interesting when you were asking about the release of the documents that the republicans want up on capitol hill. he said at the right time i may have to order the doj to release them. what would the right time would be? probably right after brett kavanaugh is confirmed by the u.s. senate. i didn't want to do it before, would like to do before midterms. brian: the dems are saying, the president is in so much legal turmoil we have to hold off on brett kavanaugh confirmation.
steve: looking for excuse. ainsley: the payout money that came from him not his campaign, so it's not a campaign violation and he also said he was going to -- he never said he was going to pardon paul manafort but it sounded like to me that he might be considering it, he never said yes and he never said no. steve: but you asked him and he did not answer, all right, more coming up in about half an hour and brand-new details about the illegal immigrant charged many murder of mollie tibbetts. let your perfect drive come together during the final days of the lincoln summer invitation event
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they were able to look at video footage from various residents in this neighborhood. one of those homes where the video footage that span this entire area. now here is what we know that on july the 18th mollie tibbett jogging on eastern des moines street being followed according to law enforcement officers by a stalker christian rivera. mollie came into this area where i'm here now and then made a left turn here on boundary street and jogged in this area, stalked by christian rivera, law enforcement informed us that mollie took a jog on 385 and
somewhere up 385 avenue that she was abducted by christian rivera. and, guys, the investigation continues. steve: it does, indeed, it's haunting to see the street where she was alive. ainsley: it's a neighborhood. i was picturing out -- steve: corn fields for miles and miles, out in the middle of nowhere. that's broad daylight and it's a neighborhood, houses around. >> yeah, and that's what makes it very complicated for law enforcement because you would think that a stalker would having seen all the houses would not want to attack somebody in broad daylight but this stalker did. steve: luckily somebody had surveillance camera and that cracked the case. thank you very much from des moines. >> my pleasure. steve: more of ainsley's
exclusive interview with the president coming up.
a disaster declaration, the hurricane is so big that it can be seen from space, look at that. take a look at this incredible video showing a weather plane flying directly in category 4 storm with winds up to 145 miles per hour. today republican congressman duncan hunter and wife will face judge after being indicted on fraud charges, the california representative calls it a witch hunt and claims our justice system is politically motivated. the couple is accused of using $250,000 in campaign funds for personal expenses and covering it up. he will speak exclusively with more that he mccallum tonight. brian. brian: he hit the road last week and may never come back to the studio. ainsley: todd piro looking at fun traveling across the
country. steve: last week he went to dollywood and now from atlantic city, new jersey. hey, trish -- todd. >> good morning, first let's begin, this is what we took over the thunderbirds here in atlantic city, it's a great rv, it really is, comforts of home, what makes it is it makes easy to drive. f16 fighting falcon, i was fortunate enough to be passenger under amazing guidance and piloting of brandon, it was the experience of a lifetime, check it out. time to take the road trip from the ground to the sky.
that was pretty cool. maybe i can fly with them. >> the thunderbirds represents 660,000 active duty guardsman. >> why do you do trips? >> to recruit, retain and inspire. we cover across america representing the amazing things the air force is doing every day. you will get an opportunity not many people get a chance to do, strap in f-16 and going into the ride of your life. how are you feeling today. >> a little height headed. dollywood roller coaster. i keep hearing this is athletic event. >> do you think i'm ready? >> you are going to crush it. >> they say you can't pick your call sign.
that's thunderbird media. this probably works. >> ready to go? >> ready as aisle -- i'll ever be. >> how cool is that? >> that's awesome. >> it's goo -- go time. ♪ ♪ >> all right, let's go. >> all right. >> how are you doing back there? >> so smooth. >> go to the left. >> here we go. nice and easy. all right. are you ready to fly the f16? >> oh, no. what do i do? >> all the way left. further. pull back.
pull back further. there you go. all right. upside down. are you ready? that was amazing. >> we pulled over. ♪ ♪ [cheers and applause] >> todd, welcome back to earth here. >> it's an experience that i will never forget. i'm speechless and that is rare. all right, guys, check out this flag, you can see i have one in
my hand. you can see in cockpit. the flags fly on every mission including the real ones where ordinance ie bombs. >> no bombs were dropped. represents not only 130 brave and women who do thunderbird air force, but the brave men and women, more than 130 strong who defend our freedom from the skies, guys, i can't put into words enough this was one of the most amazing things i've ever done in my life and i thank air force for this opportunity. steve: job well done, top gun todd piro, if you like more information visit fox foxnews.com/roadtrip. ainsley: i like that you shook their hands to thank them.
[laughter] >> we are going to st. agustin, hopefully it's more chill. steve: next stop is florida. thank you. coming up. ainsley: we have more of exclusive interview with the president. here is a little clip. 76 days away from midterms, hard to believe if democrats take back power, do you believe they will try to impeach you, his answer coming up next. ..
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plans? >> molly is a beautiful young girl, i watched the father, he kept saying, i doubted it was going to happen, she's coming back, she just left but she's coming back. is a beautiful thing in a way, it is hoped but now there is no hope. she was killed by a horrible person who came from mexico, illegally here, found by ice, our great ice, who is abused by the democrats and the left and without them we might not be sitting here so comfortably right now. i just think it is sad that it has already started. spent $3.2 billion, asking for $5 billion for this year's funding, the wall is going up. i would like to build it even faster but dealing with the
democrats is very tough, the immigration laws are horrible, we are doing an incredible job, record-breaking job, we have bad laws. you can do good but you could do a lot better if you had good laws. they will all get changed but we have to elect more republicans. >> the nazi guard living in new york, officials deported him. why was that so important? >> i have a lot of jewish friends who said to me about this man, i grew up in queens, that is where i grew up and he was a man, not just a prison guard but supervise the killing of many jews. he has lived here for decades and walks the streets, i walk the same streets. people came up to me. they tell me about this nazi who lived in queens and walks the street like he owns the place, he is 95 years old and the obama administration was
unable to pull it off and the bush administration was unable to pull it off. democrat assemblyman from new york, heavy democrat, a guy who never heard of a republican. he was giving me such praise. he was so nice. he said thank you, mister president, thank you. it was so nice to watch because of the fact he is a democrat, he said i don't care whether it is republican or democrat, what he did is something nobody else was able to do. i have done many things like that. they don't get reported. they don't get reported. what we are doing for healthcare is incredible. we are keeping the remnants of obamacare, we mostly got it killed, got rid of the individual mandate but the remnants of obamacare, the increase is much less than people thought because of us.
we are getting rid of it and putting in new healthcare which is a beautiful thing. >> 76 days from the midterms, hard to believe. of democrats take back our you believe they will try to impeach you? >> i guess it is something like high crimes and all. i don't know how you can impeach somebody who has done a great job. if i ever got impeached i think the market would crash. i think everybody would be very poor because without this you would see numbers you wouldn't believe if hillary clinton got elected instead of 4.1, each point is 31/$2 trillion. when i took it over it was at one and it was going to be down, it was going down. i got rid of regulations, the tax cut was a tremendous thing and even before the tax cut right from the first day i got rid of regulations, 48,000 jobs, did a lot of things.
had hillary in the democrats gotten in, had she been president you would have had negative growth. we picked up $10 trillion, china has gone down $15 trillion. when i came in china was a dominant force. now they like me very much. i get along great with abca1. we can no longer give you $500 billion a year on bad trade deals and you see what happened for the last 90 days and the reason i waited is i wanted china's help. otherwise i would've done it sooner. china has been a big help and i hope they continue to be but i have to get going on trade but last year china -- we had a deficit with china, $517 billion, not going to happen anymore. >> the question about impeachment is interesting because we heard from people in washington dc that some legal experts, any legal peril regarding michael cohen claims
but the real peril is impeachment and going closer to the midterms look for republicans to save the democrats win they will try to impeach him and look at the success the administration had, do you want this to happen, that will be there argument. >> don't you can impeach the become he said, who has done a great job. in the market will crash. >> michael cohen speaking to authorities about his foundation, clearly someone is trying to circle the wagons, circle the president, hopefully his legal team is up for the battle. >> 19 minutes before the top of the hour. dana lash is up next and you know about political analysis but he condition mean burger too. we are cooking with the bossi family straight ahead. >> the boston burger. ♪
is back with some headlines, police releasing new surveillance video showing the moment someone fires a gun at a luxury high-rise on midtown manhattan, the nypd looking for man and woman seen in that area of the time of the shooting and shots fired from across the east river into the 50 story building, nobody was hurt. you could call this finger licking bad. border patrol agents finding a drug smuggling tunnel underneath an old kfc restaurant in arizona. the chain's former owner used a rope to pool meth, cocaine and fentanyl into the us. officers choosing $1 million in drugs. >> outrage grows over an illegal immigrant charged in the murder of mollie tibbetts, elizabeth warren says the real
crime is family separation. >> this is hard not only for the family but for the people in her community, people throughout iowa. one of the things we have to remember is we need immigration system that was effective and focuses on their real problems. separating babies from others does not make the country safe? >> is the time individuals who have been ripped from their family's arms, jamil shaw junior comes to mind, just what you picture when you think of an all-american teenager ripped from his parents arms and his mother was active-duty because of someone who is an illegal
alien and i could go on and say a lot of families, certain people in power enforced immigration laws. >> he entered the united states as a minor, not in the united states illegally, he has daca status, he didn't ever apply for that. >> i don't think this was the first time a lawyer served the truth, it was working legally because he checked through e-verify even though was allegedly fraudulently obtained documents to do so but people that own the farm that employed
him said they didn't run e-verify, they just used social security to make sure the documents checked out which seems a little weird. he wasn't working here legally, dhs and border security, every alphabet soup agency had no record of him. >> they did not have e-verify and he used the wrong name, doesn't am i can innocent guy making his way up in america and no one is buying that he blacked out during the situation. if you look at his background i'm sure this is not the first transgression. >> i agree with you. we need to stop giving -- this is what it feels like to me and a lot of people all over the country. to us, we see individuals who enter the country illegally, democrats want to conflate lawful immigration with those who enter illegally. it feels like they are completing the issue, and give some sort of bizarre diplomatic immunity to people who enter the country illegally. why can't they be held at work for their crimes.
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>> glor: ben, you just returned from this 12-hour train ride. talk about what you saw and didn't see there. >> reporter: it was pretty surreal. so, north korea invited in a small group of journalists. they took us on a train about 12 hours up to their nuclear test site, which is in a remote mountainous region of north korea. and then, they blew the thing up. they basically blew up three test tunnels, the three remaining test tunnels at the site. they were laced with explosives. they walked us right up to the doors of these tunnels to show us. then they blew it up. then they brought us back to those doors and said, "double check." see with your own eyes that we have done this. we want to be transparent.' the only problem is the only people there were journalists. we're not experts on what it takes to shut down a nuclear test site. so, what we saw with our own eyes is that, yes, they did blow up the entrances to the tunnels. we don't know what else occurred or if that site is really unusable. but north korea continues to say they are committed to denuclearization, and so far they're saying the cancellation of this summit with president trump or postponement of it is not changing their mind. >> glor: amazing to hear these details. ben tracy from north korea. thank you, ben. the north korean response will surely get reaction from the white house very soon, and major garrett is there with more on what led the president to cancel the summit. >> i believe this is a tremendous setback for north korea and indeed a setback for the world. >> reporter: after canceling the summit, president trump revived tough military rhetoric he believes led north korea to consider giving up its nuclear weapons. >> our military, which is by far the most powerful anywhere in the world and has been greatly enhanced recently, as you all know, is ready if necessary. >> reporter: but mr. trump did not rule out future talks. >> it's possible that the existing summit could take place or a summit at some later date. nobody should be anxious. we have to get it right. >> reporter: the president wrote in a letter to dictator kim jong-un, the north's "tremendous anger and open hostility scuttled the summit, a reference to north korea's statement last night calling vice president pence a political dummy and warning of nuclear conflict. the president added, "you talk about nuclear capabilities, but ours are so massive and powerful that i pray to god they will never have to be used." mr. trump did end by writing if kim changes course, "please do not hesitate to call me or write." >> we meet president trump as soon as possible. >> reporter: less than three months ago, the president accepted the surprise invitation from kim. in a sign of good faith, north korea released three american prisoners. >> we want to thank kim jong-un, who really was excellent. >> reporter: but trouble emerged last week when north korea complained about a joint south korea-u.s. exercise and failed to show up in singapore for a meeting. >> we have not been able to conduct the preparation between our two teams necessary for a successful summit. >> glor: all right, so major, a couple things now tonight. a lot is breaking. first of all, south korea had just about as much riding on this summit as the u.s. or north korea. how is south korea reacting, and also, what do you make of the north's effort, which seemed like a somewhat muted reaction here, saying we're willing to potentially work this out. they certainly weren't calling anybody a dummy tonight. >> reporter: right. two points, jeff. first of all, the south koreans said they were surprised by this development. the white house admitted late this afternoon the south korean president, moon jae-in, only learned of the president's growing frustration and hesitation about attending this mid-june summit at their face to face meeting on tuesday. undercutting long standing white house representations that the two allies are in constant communication. as for this north korean response, it will suggest to this white house and president trump that it does have military leverage and the north koreans are willing to engage. but the white house said today the north koreans are going to have to take some very strong steps diplomatically and procedurally to convince this white house it's truly ready for a summit at any future date. >> glor: okay, major garrett, thank you. from the white house, we bring in margaret brennan, moderator of "face the nation." margaret, as we mentioned, a whole lot happening right now. north korea was very enthusiastic about this summit a couple weeks ago. changed its tune significantly just in the past few days or so here. what... what happened? >> reporter: well, president trump believed that china might be partially to blame here, and he has pointed publicly to a meeting earlier this month between president xi jinping and kim jong-un at a point at which the u.s. diplomacy soured. this coincides with that recent spike in trade tensions between the united states and china, and u.s. officials wonder now if beijing may be using its influence on north korea to slow down progress with the u.s. the other factor here, of course, is the confusing white house rhetoric. late last month, national security adviser john bolton angered north korea by suggesting president trump wanted to disarm north korea the same way president bush disarmed libya back in 2003. of course, eight years later, that country's leader was overthrown and killed, and it was vice president pence's mention of libya that drew that sharp rebuke, that language calling him "dummy" that you reference. >> glor: margaret, john bolton is a well-known hawk. the president said we shouldn't be anxious, but is there a feeling that anyone is closer to a confrontation tonight? >> reporter: well, this latest statement from north korea suggests they are also still open to diplomacy, but the halt to the process does increase the chance of confrontation. president trump seems to be leaving the door open to a future meeting with kim jong-un, so he's sending the signal he's not done yet with talking. you got to remember, as well, here, jeff, this is not first time north korea has defied an american president, broken a promise, said one thing, done another. so, the trump white house has been waiting to see these headlines that we're now seeing break and this response from north korea before they take any next steps. >> glor: and then a response from the white house upcoming. margaret brennan, thanks very much. we move now to late news on harvey weinstein. once one of the most powerful men in hollywood, weinstein is expected to surrender to authorities in new york city tomorrow. he is now facing criminal charges for the first time. this comes nearly eight months after more than a dozen women came forward claiming weinstein harassed, assaulted or raped them. since then, dozens more have come forward, giving rise to the "me too" and "time's up" movements. here is jericka duncan. >> reporter: harvey weinstein is scheduled to surrender to new york city authorities tomorrow morning. the associated press reports he is expected to face charges involving at least one of the women who've accused weinstein of sexual assault. the case reportedly involves lucia evans. evans is the woman featured in this "new yorker" article who said weinstein forced her to perform oral sex on him in 2004. for the last several months, harvey weinstein has been under the radar with occasional photos of him appearing at rehab or in restaurants. more than 80 women have come forward since last fall, accusing weinstein of sexual harassment, misconduct and even rape. in november, cbs news spoke exclusively to actress paz de la huerta, who says she was raped by weinstein in 2010. new york city police have pursued charges against weinstein in the past, but, in de la huerta's case, the d.a.'s office felt they lacked sufficient evidence. >> he pushed me on the bed. he unzipped his pants and it happened all very suddenly. >> reporter: weinstein's alleged criminal behavior sparked an international movement that's been responsible for ending the careers of dozens of men who have not been criminally charged but have been accused of sexual misconduct. tonight, the latest hollywood star to come into question is oscar-winning actor morgan freeman. in total, 16 women are speaking out, saying they either experienced or witnessed inappropriate behavior or sexual harassment by the 80-year-old according to cnn. most of the women spoke anonymously. one woman told cnn that in 2015 she was a production assistant in her twenties working on the set of "going in style." the legendary actor, she says, tried to lift up her skirt and asked her if she was wearing any underwear. >> glor: jericka, any response from either morgan freeman or harvey weinstein tonight? >> reporter: well, this afternoon, morgan freeman did put out statement. and he said that he apologized to anyone that he made feel uncomfortable and says it wasn't his intent. as for weinstein, his attorney did not respond, but we know, jeff, repeatedly he has said that he denies ever having non- consensual sex with any of the women who have accused him of sexual misconduct. >> glor: jericka duncan, thank you. >> glor: there are spectacular images of a new danger on hawaii's big island. blue flames fueled bee methane gas that could potentially explode. mark strassmann is there. >> reporter: nature's fury is on full displairk as fountains of lava continue to gush in communities hardest hit by this volcanic disaster. it's like a scene from the dawn of time, when the world was remade over and over. this close, i can feel the heat and the power a volcanic eruption that shows no sign of slowing down. these rare images of blue flames show a new danger. they're a telltale sign of highly combustible methane gas, the result of lava burning plants and trees beneath the surface. officials are concerned the methane will cause explosions if it's ignited while trapped underground. you're looking at one of four active fissures here in leilani estates. in the middle, there's a fast-moving river of lava, and an enormous lava lake that surrounds it. this lava is coming out at 100 degrees. not a drop of lava has touched shantel pacarro's home. it's been destroyed by a massive crack running through her property. she's just grateful her family is okay. >> we can always rebuild. as long as we have each other, that's the most important thing. >> reporter: and scientists say steam explosions happen about twice a day at kilauea's main crater, producing ashplumes up to 10,000 feet high. mark strassmann, cbs news, on the big island. >> glor: coming up next on the "cbs evening news," airmen in control of nuclear weapons partying out of control on psychedelic drugs. with a level of protection in down markets. so you can be less concerned about your retirement savings. talk with your advisor about shield annuities from brighthouse financial- established by metlife. and back pain made it hard to sleep and get up on time. then i found aleve pm. the only one to combine a safe sleep aid... ...plus the 12 hour pain relieving strength of aleve. i'm back. aleve pm for a better am. i'm missing out on our family outings because i can't find a bladder leakage product that fits. everything was too loose. but depend® fit-flex feels tailored to me. introducing more sizes for better comfort. new depend® fit-flex underwear is guaranteed to be your best fit. but prevagen helps your brain with an ingredient new depend® fit-flex underwear originally discovered... in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. the name to remember. i'm not really a, i thought wall street guy.ns. what's the hesitation? 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"i absolutely just loved altering my mind," one airman testified at his court-martial. another said under oath, "i didn't know if i was going to die that night or not," and admitted he would not have been able to perform his duty in case of a nuclear security emergency. between 2015 and 2016, more than a dozen nuclear base personnel were found to have been abusing l.s.d. and other drugs, including cocaine, ecstasy and marijuana. none were accused of using l.s.d. on duty. >> the person will be affected on the job and affected by the acute, intoxicating effects of l.s.d. >> reporter: but a dr. elias dakwar who works at columbia university's irving medical center says l.s.d.'s effects last longer than the initial trip. >> there may still be lingering anxiety, lingering suspicion as a result of any kind of experience that is harrowing. it leaves a certain residue. >> reporter: in a statement, the air force says there are multiple checks to make sure airmen are able to execute the mission safely, securely and effectively. in all, 14 airmen were disciplined, included six convicted in court-martials of using or distributing l.s.d. jeff, the most severe sentence in this case: 12 months. but the lead prosecutor in that case wanted much more, citing the concern for public safety and public trust. >> glor: pretty amazing details here. tony, thanks. coming up here tonight, serena williams' comeback controversy. was she punished for having a baby? and imagine the chef's surprise when this happened? what matters to you? you got a1c, heart, diet, and exercise. slide 'em up or slide 'em down. so let's see. for most of you, it's lower a1c. but only a few of you are thinking about your heart. fact is, even though it helps to manage a1c, type 2 diabetes still increases your risk of a fatal heart attack or stroke. jardiance is the only type 2 diabetes pill with a lifesaving cardiovascular benefit for adults who have type 2 diabetes and heart disease, significantly reducing the risk of 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involved in last week's fatal crash in new jersey faces criminal charges. the 77-year-old driver is charged with vehicular homicide. more than 40 others were injured when the driver allegedly attempted an illegal u-turn. his license had been suspended 14 times. serena williams faces an uphill battle making her grand slam comeback this sunday at the french open. williams went on maternity leave more than a year ago ranked number one. she's now ranked 453 and enters the french open unseeded and will likely face tougher opponents in the early rounds than if she had kept her number- one ranking. up next here, the remarkable and chilling story of how a navy seal earned the nation's highest military honor. >> glor: today, members of the old guard placed american flags at more than 228,000 graves at arlington national cemetery for memorial day. a retired navy seal who says his thoughts are always with fallen comrades was awarded the medal of honor today. david martin tells us about his heroic 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the u.s. had a commitment to further dialogue with north korea, and that they would continue efforts to create conditions for u.s.-north korea talks. overnight here in seoul, president moon urged against direct talks between president trump and kim jong un to try to save this thing, saying do nuclear is a and of the north cannot be apprehended or delayed. he did admit he was a bit perplexed by the move by the white house to cancel the summit, calling it regrettable. most noticeable reaction, i would say, shannon, came from the regime itself of kim jong u kim jong un. a short while ago, we saw a statement coming from his vice foreign minister, saying that in fact, from the regime, there was still a willingness to sit down and talk face-to-face with the united states and any time at any format. also, there was an open-minded nest to give the u.s. side of te time and the opportunities to talk. this, however, comes after that very strong statement earlier in the week threatening among other things a nuclear showdown. remember, that seemed to be the final push to get the white house to pull out of the summit. finally, all this comes following thursday's claim dismantlement of north korea's only known nuclear testing siten journalists who witnessed the explosion and destruction of tunnels and buildings linked to past tests, not invited, though, and is as crucial, expert observers who could confirm the claims. by the way, the new site closure was literally left in the dust by president trump's move to get out of the summit. but there are some analysts, talking to joe's this morning, who think that perhaps north korea-u.s. diplomacy could rise from the rubble. >> shannon: all right, we'll wait and see. greg palkot live from seoul. thank you so much. we are learning new details from the white house about how and why the president decided to pull the plug, summit, at least for now. kristin fisher walks us through some of the president's decision-making tonight. good evening. >> this is a decision of the president has been mulling over for the last week or so but things really escalated very quickly last night, when a senior administration official says the president was briefed about that latest statement from north korea, the one where they again threatened a nuclear showdown with the u.s. the president slept on it, and the morning, got together with the vice president, secretary of state, chief of staff, and his national security advisor. they talked it over and then were told that president trump dictated every single word of this letter. it's the first direct communication has ever been made public for my u.s. president to a leader of north korea. he writes... i was very much looking forward to being there with you. sadly, based on the tremendous anger and open hostility displayed in your most recent statement, i feel it is inappropriate, at this time, to have the long planned meeting. >> i have decided to terminate the plan to summit in singapore on june 12th. >> but it wasn't just the latest statement from the north koreans threatening the u.s. to meet at a meeting room or encounter is that a nuclear showdown that pushed the president to call it off. a senior administration official also blames it on the north koreans being a no-show at a planned meeting last week in singapore. they didn't tell us anything, the officials said. they simply stood us up. the u.s. that made numerous attempts to communicate but they never responded. on top of all of that, today, the north koreans claimed to destroy a nuclear test sites but there were no international experts there to verify it, as initially promised. >> hopefully positive things will be taking place with respect to the future of north korea. but if they don't, we are more ready than we have ever been before. >> president trump reminding north korea of what one administration official described as the real balance of power here, that he also sent some sweetener to kim jong un, urging him that if he changes his mind, please do not hesitate to call me or write to. >> if and when kim jong un chooses to engage in constructive dialogue, and actions, i am waiting. >> until then, the president's policy of maximum pressure continues. tonight, the white house says, the ball is in north korea's court. >> shannon: just call me or write me if you change your mind. one of the most interesting presidential letters i think i have ever seen. we'll see, it looks like they're coming back to the table tonight. thank you very much. capitol hill weighing in on one canceled summit as well. joining me now, republican congressman from south carolina joe wilson, a member of the house armed services and foreign relations committee, also one of two current members of congress who has actually been to pyongyang, thank you for joining us tonight. >> shannon, i appreciate our shared virginia heritage. >> shannon: yes, we have that in common. let's talk about what happened in the letter from the president today. christian reported on it and had some passages. including this one as well. the president says, you talk about your nuclear capabilities, but ours ever so massive and powerful that i pray to god they will never have to be used. do you think -- they were carrots and sticks in this letter. what works better with north korea? >> what ics promises made, promises kept. the president said that if the negotiations could lead to denuclearization, the removal of nuclear weapons, that he would withdraw. in fact, this week, we know that the north korean foreign minister actually issued a throat and so the president i think acted decisively and thens that north korea actually says we'll meet anytime, anywhere. >> shannon: is interesting how quickly that turned around, coming from the vice foreign minister tonight, saying, this isn't the way we thought this was going to go, let's get back together and keep talking. what you make of the fact that the left has jumped on this? we'll talk about this later, saying, he's not going to give a nobel prize, he doesn't know what he's doing. even some members of congress on the left have said that they are glad the president walked away, the right thing for him to do. he still doesn't know what he's doing. >> is another example of trump derangement syndrome. the good news for the american people, we have the leadership of secretary of state mike pompeo, ambassador john bolton, ambassador nikki haley. a team in place that will protect american families. >> shannon: i want to read the statement we are getting from the north korean leader, the first vice foreign minister. what they are saying tonight. "the abrupt announcement of the cancellation of the meeting is unexpected for us. we cannot but find it extremely regrettable. we again stated to the u.s. our willingness to sit face-to-face at any time, in any form, to resolve the problem." how quickly do you think the white house response or does this get back on track? does the june 12th dave told? to the hold out for a bit? what happens next? >> again, the good news, whether it be june 12 there were never come of the door is still open. there's already been an achievement, the relief of release of the hostages, i am so proud of donald trump and the differences he is making for american families. >> shannon: he did think the north koreans in his letter very nicely, saying it was a beautiful thing they had done allowing the americans to come home. there was a lot of praise for him in this letter and it was something that house minority leader congresswoman nancy pelosi actually made fun of. she said that kim jong un must be having a giggle fit reading this letter, it was way too nice, and also a valentine to the north korean leader. >> i think it was a well-written letter. i thought it was pretty interesting. it doesn't have to be so diplomatic. the bottom line is, we have a leader who is protecting american families. today's a big day in the national defense organization act was passed by congress, we rebuilding the military again, the congress living up to his promises to rebuild the military, peace through strength. >> shannon: you have seen a video of the supposed demolition of the nuclear test site, it was said that there were collapsing and tunnels on the building underneath us. what do you make of that? do you think that is a legitimate way to assess that? we don't have experts on the site. >> we don't have full verification. that is encouraging, too. who would have ever imagined, we already know the far left would have dismissed this as not being able to ever occur. well, whatever occurred, a step forward, and again, i'm grateful to the leadership of donald trump. >> shannon: congressman joe wilson, great to see you tonight, sir. >> thank you thank you. >> shannon: our other top story tonight, two critical meetings, justice department officials talked about the intelligence that republicans have been trying to get. there were republicans and democrats in this meeting. it was all about what the president has been calling spygate. an alleged secret fbi informant feeding information from the trump campaign back to the agency. chief national correspondent ed henry has the inside scoop for us tonight. >> good to see you. it's interesting, there was no surveillance at all, and how they are trying to calibrated. there were no major leaks, but i'm getting new draft of information, today, the lawmakers were discussing highly classified information from us or devin nunes is flatly saying they cannot discuss this sensitive information. people of been briefed on the takeaways from all of this, say a number of things. first, there is no doubt there was surveillance of the trump campaign. fbi and justice officials are just trying to say it was not spying. second, these officials are trying to say it is all very normal, routine, when in fact surveillance of a campaign, we all know, is anything but normal. third, i'm being told that government officials are trying to say that this fbi counterintelligence investigation was not directed at the trump campaign. it was directed at russia. but in fact, even if there surveillance was directed at russia, the one or more informants the fbi was using, they were interacting with trump campaign officials. so that was still surveillance of the trump team, which is also interesting about that, this claim by current fbi and doj officials, this was normal, and directed at russia, not the trump camp. we for the talking point already from former officials like james clapper on his book tour. the president has been trying to tear apart previous comments by clapper and james comey claiming that there has been no surveillance. clapboard charging the president is twisting his words when the president tweeted that there was spying in the campaign. large dollars paid to the spies far beyond normal, started to look like one of the biggest political scandals in u.s. history, spygate, a terrible thing, the president said. democrats, not happy about those attacks of the fact that the white house said two top officials stopped by today, helped defending bill clinton, helping this president in the russia probe. mark warner, top democrat on the intel committee, had no business being there. sarah sanders said the two officials did not say, dropped by to make brief remarks before the meeting started, to really the president's desire for as much openness as possible under the law and that is with the president's allies on the hill say, too. >> that is pretty unusual to have an investigation. we need to make sure there are checks and balances, was there a good reason? >> nothing we've heard today changed our view, there is no evidence to support any allegation that the fbi or any intelligence agency placed a spy in the trump campaign. >> what they are denying as a spy was placed in the campaign. they are not denying they were surveilled. by the republican shares of two key house committees, trey gowdy and bob gathered, said they are bringing in house officials about the handling of the clinton email probe. put that together with the ig report, a lot more bubbling. i can tell you, shannon, i spoke to people who were digging all of this, they say, there is a question, should the president call it a spy get? while there be evidence to back it up? there will be evidence. >> shannon: they are so much about the semantics. to have the democrats say there was nothing, to talk about how upset they were that the white house officials were there, when we are told by the right house they left before there was any discussion of classified information, seems it will remain -- >> a lot of sparring. got to get to the bottom line. >> shannon: thank you. the intelligence briefings today were in part the result of the president's tweeting that he wants an investigation into what he calls spygate. gillian turner explains the role of fbi informants for us tonigh tonight. >> we now call it a spygate. you are calling it a spygate. a lot about things have happened. >> president trump accusing the fbi of going rogue. he says during the criminal investigation into russian meddling in the 2016 election, the bureau overstepped the authority and spied on his campaign. but when administrations spy is another administrations confidential human informant. >> the important thing is not to spy on the campaign, but rather, to determine what the russians were up to you. i think they were just doing their job and trying to protect our political system. >> the justice department now launched its own investigation to suss out the truth. some intelligence insiders are crying politics. >> the president is saying, they should have known better than to be poking around with intelligence powers on an issue that so directly affects the politics and the possible outcome of a presidential election, and there is a lot of reason to believe that there were steps that were either missed in this process or there were abuses at a minimum of authority. >> president trump demanding clarity via twitter. he wants to know who authorized the alleged covert operation at win. >> if we are talking about a situation where a human source was knowingly being run against members of the trump campaign, we have to assume that would be known at the attorney general level and it is very likely it would have made it straight from the attorney general's office to the president of united states of a time, barack obama. >> because of executive privilege come we may never know whether authorization rents are high. the word of the day among intelligence insiders is transparency. they say they currently standoff between the president and fbi can only end once the american people have all the information. shannon? >> shannon: thank you very much. democrats who intended the intelligence briefing today are questioning the administrations motive over the presence of two white house staff members, lawyer emmett flood and chief of staff john kelly, even though the pair left before any classified information was discussed. former deputy assistant attorney general tom dupree joined just to break this down. >> great to see you, shannon. >> shannon: the way it is been characterized as they went in, made some sort of opening statement in both of these meetings about with the president expects and the openness he wants, and then they left and at there were some who were very unhappy about that. senator mark warner, one of the top democrats of the intelligence committee, said, "for the record, the president's chief of staff and his attorney, ongoing criminal investigation into the president campaign, have no business showing up for a classified intelligence briefing." what do you make of that? >> it seems that from the facts as we know them, they did not attend the classified intelligence briefing. it appears they adhered to their proper role. they came in, they reminded the justice department officials that the president demands and expects transparency. they relay that message to the president's appointees and i got the heck out. it doesn't sound like they actually were there for the classified intelligence briefing, this strikes me as kind of typical washington political attacks rather than a real substantive object. >> shannon: some on the left are saying, it was an intimidation factor, to come in and say, we are keeping an eye on this whole thing. do you think they were in their proper rules? >> i do. it makes all the sins of the world, when you have administration officials cominge president would want to tell his people, be transparent, forthcoming, i want you to share this information. congress has a legitimate role to play here. they are saying, how can we probably exercise or armor oversight role if we don't have information? the justice department is trying to say, we are happy to share information but if we disclose too much information that compromises our ability to run these types of investigations. there is a natural tension and i think the white house and i president, his people, just trying to make sure that the justice department is being as transparent as they could, consistent with the law. >> shannon: according to the executive branch, which some people forget about her underwear. moving forward, adam schiff, said he was not moved by what he saw today, what they disclosed. here's what he said after the meeting. >> nothing we heard today has changed our view that there is no evidence to support any allegation that the fbi or any intelligence agency placed a spy in the trump campaign. or otherwise failed to follow appropriate procedures and protocols. >> shannon: we haven't gotten too much from inside the meeting, which is unusual. we are told apparently documents weren't physically turned over where they were allowed to see a lot of things. relatively quiet from folks. >> it really has. that surprised me. what we are seeing based on congressman adam schiff congress, comments, i think the democrats will try to portray this, as no one placed a spy within the trump campaign. it seems that what happens was the justice department ran a surveillance operations, they tried to get information from people who were connected with the trump campaign but in the mind of the democrats, that is not a spy, that is permissible surveillance. i don't think we have heard the last event. i don't know if the republicans were satisfied with that they got. i think the jury is out. my best guess is this dispute is not going away. >> shannon: i think you're right. with the inspector general's report that is coming, there are probably a whole new series of questions and confrontations that will come from that as well. >> for those of us who love investigations, we are getting more than we ever dreamed. everyone in washington have got an investigation going on now and i suspect as the months go by, we will find the conclusions and more importantly, the evidence that they have uncovered. to be when i keep thinking about, witness horwitz going to sleep? this inspector general gets a new investigation every week. >> he's a hardworking guy. >> shannon: you are as well. thank you for making time for us. how is that nobel prize working out for you? that is the kind of trolling we have been hearing from the left today. are they playing right into the president's hands politically every time they go out and mock him? plus, a high school student sues. they made him cover up a trump t-shirt. the latest anti-free-speech outrage against supporters of the president of the united states. chris stirewalt has a thing to say about all of this. that is next. the president positively pardons the legendary boxing champ who many say was jailed on trumped up races charges a century ago. so why did this president pardon for boxer were were no president of both parties have ignored the plea? that story is next. spark cash card from capital one. with it, i earn unlimited 2% cash back on everything i buy. everything. and that 2% cash back adds up to thousands of dollars each year... so i can keep growing my business in big leaps! what's in your wallet? 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>> there goes that nobel peace prize. >> what dlse actually close? the wall has not been closed, he said he will drain the swamp, the swamp is more corrupt. >> shannon: how did his folks feel when this kind of stuff happens? >> they don't like it. i would point out, there is a good reason not to raise expectations about something as risky as a summit with north korea, right? this was a dicey play all along and a lot of the president's supporters were telling him, for domestic political consumption, manage expectations. don't strike commemorative coins. manage expectations. by the way, the people who were nominating trump for a nobel peace prize were doing him no favors. these people were sucking up to the president. i am nominating you very nobel peace prize, you are so fantastic. this is raising expectations to a point that no matter what he does come at a certain point, it becomes -- may be the simplest way i can put it is this -- the big fear for trump was that he wouldn't get out of the deal was looking bad. he got out. his critics said, -- >> shannon: now they are back on the table tonight, saying, anytime you want to talk, we are ready. >> that is the dash you can fire me, i quit by the president knew that was going south, he bailed, and all north korea is like, i thought you wanted to talk? i had no idea. we are here if you want to call. this is all a bunch of stagecraft at the same time. for domestic political purposes for the president, his friends who hyped this to such a great degree, whatever happens in the future, manage expectations. if you like the guy, manage expectations for him so he looks like a winner. >> shannon: as soon as these people, like all the democrats on the hill and "the view," startling him, it makes them more loyal. all these people are working against the president every single day, and he's right about them. >> trolling works. >> shannon: trolling is a big thing. let's talk about the case in oregon. a kid wears a t-shirt to school, i want to tell you what it says. "donald j. trump border wall construction company." the shirt had a quota for the president from 2016 saying the wall just got 10 feet taller. he was told he could not wear it unless he covered it up, and a teacher who all year long had a pro-sanctuary city poster in her room, so she could give the pro century city poster up but he couldn't where the pro-border wall shirt. >> this is what we are told. i don't know enough about the school's rules to know whether they were favorably enforced or not. >> shannon: let me tell you what they said. clothing decorated or marked with illustrations, words, phrases, that are disruptive or potentially disruptive, and/or that promote superiority of one group over another --dash not permitted. >> if i ran a school, he would not be allowed to wear that shirt. there would be no way. >> shannon: what about the pros enjoy city policy? >> i would tell my teachers do not have that either. i would forbid any sort of frizzled frazzle going on in the classroom. people are there to learn, not control each other. what i don't understand here, and you're an attorney, what i don't understand here, much like i don't understand about the case of the guy who sued because a bar in greenwich village wouldn't serve him and he was wearing a maga hat. your mother used to say, don't make a federal case about it, i think this is what she was talking about it. it is unfortunate that he had a bad day, apparently he wasn't suspended. >> shannon: apparently that ths rescinded. >> he graduated. go on with life. things are unfair, people do things you don't life, do what you got to do, just move on down the trail to a happier pastor. >> shannon: what he said, if the teacher was treated the same way as he was, maybe it would be fair. these folks feel like if you have a pro-trump position, they are coming after you. he is making a federal case out of it. we'll watch it. "night court" is going to weigh in. >> we have a counselor in residence. >> we'll see. >> shannon: chris, thank you. [laughter] thank you. a rare posthumous pardon from president trump for the late african-american heavyweight boxing champion jack johnson. trace gallagher explains who he was and why no other president had parted him before. >> shannon, the president's pardon of jack johnson drew praise from politicians to boxers to a famous actor who portrayed a boxer. in fact, sylvester stallone, who attended today's ceremony, actually called president trump last month asking him to consider the pardon. jack johnson, of course, beakine boxing's first black champ. by 1913, he was convicted by an all-white jury of violating the mann act, which made it illegal to transport a woman across state lines. historians note it was widely used to stop interracial marriage. after he was convicted, johnson fled the u.s. and continued boxing overseas, until years later when he agreed to return to the u.s. and serve ten months in prison. johnson died in a car crash in 1946 at the age of 68. in recent years, former senate majority leader harry reid and senator john mccain have called for johnson to be pardoned. they are plea was ignored by previous presidents, but president trump, heavily involved in promoting mike tyson's atlantic city fight in the 1980s, said it was his honor and about time. >> we have done something today that was very important because we righted a wrong. >> after the ceremony, john john mccain tweeted... and former heavyweight champ george foreman tweeted... and here's sylvester stallone. >> his crime was taken away but somehow, he still managed to persevere and kept a smile on his face and he is truly an inspirational character. so this has been a long time coming. >> former heavyweight champ was also at the white house for the pardon, as was current heavyweight champ deon taylor wilder. jack johnson finished his career with a record of 73-13-10, and fought exhibitions until he was 67. sheehan and? 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to did break protocol by landing on the next? >> i was going to land at another location, and make my move on foot to the top of the mountain. there were other changes that forced me to adapt my plan. >> but were those changes? >> i was told i needed to be in position by sun up. that is what i did. >> new evidence as shedding light on that fateful day. while taking mne fire, petty officer neil roberts fell out into the snow. the army chinook helicopter crash landed 4 miles away. slabinski ordered his team back up the mountain to rescue fellow seal roberts, who survived the fall. slabinski, a second generation seal, remembered his boy scout training. >> do my honor, do my best to stand up, eyes on me, eyes on me. all of the guys were looking right on me, no other place to go, we knew we had to go right up to the same spot. at home, i got a 6-year-old boy, and i'm thinking, i'm sorry for what's about to come. i love you and be great. >> one of the pilots, now in our religion, chief warrant officer alan mack, whose helicopter was shot up on the previous attempt to land, volunteered to fly the team back into harm's way. >> and i remember hearing the boys boys, and he said, good luck. >> a key member of that team, air force technical sergeant was to call in air strikes. john chapman was hit almost immediately from close range by machine gun fire after stepping out of the helicopter. >> john goes down, right next to me, and i could feel the bullet going through my clothes. the bullets hitting around me, so i know that there is quite a few friendly fire. when i look out of my team, i get this feeling that they are being torn apart. >> where are chapman and roberts at this point? >> i didn't see roberts at all. john was more than 15 feet away for me during this whole time. he did not move throughout this whole time. i gave the order to move out, go over the top of john, looking for some sign of life, did not get any cover no movement, no sound or anything from him. >> the hasty retreat meant chapman's body remained where he was shot by enemy fighters. >> there has been criticism that you left him behind. >> i can tell you, we left no one behind. no one. what i saw, what i experienced, i know that clearly. >> what about those critics who say that decisions you made got people killed that day and that not with the medal of honor is for? >> commanders in the field have to make the best decisions they can with the best possible information that is available at the time. and they have to do that in a very compressed, very stressful time. >> do you think that chapman survived? >> it wasn't what i experienced, it wasn't what i saw. >> meanwhile, years later, drone footage and has by new technology became available that appears to show a lawn fighter still battling on the top of the mountain. special operations forces who have seen the video tell fox news they now believe chapman fought on after the seal team retreated. he he is also slated to receivee medal of honor. back on the mountain, in the midst of the top fight, slabinski heard the rotor blades of another quick reaction force coming for them. to the same spot where two helicopters had already been shot. >> why didn't you radio them before them so they knew you had a helicopter hit there? 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failed. she called pence stupid and a political dummy. >> as the president made clear, this will only end like the libya model ended if ki kim jonn doesn't make a deal. >> some see that as a threat ufrplt. >> it's more of a fact. >> he said, you talk about your nuclear capabilities. ours our so massive and powerful i hope they never have to be used. >> our military is ready if necessary. president trump suggested kim's attitude has recently changed. >> i think they want to do what is right. it was only recently that has taken place. i think i understand why it's taken place. >> the president wouldn't expound on what has taken place to change north korea's attitude. he suggested the chinese president got it kim's ear in a recent meeting in china. president: i think there was a change in attitude from kim young un. i don't like it. >> the president laid down a bed of his own last night launching a national security investigation into car and truck imports. this brought a sharp reaction from china. >> china abuses the abuse of the term of national security. it will seriously damage the multi-lateral trade system. we will safeguard our own interests. >> at the same time president trump is putting the trade squeeze on china he's urning to keep up pressure on north korea to bring kim to the table. keeping the june 12th date maybe difficult, but he wrote if you change your mind, please don't hesitate to call me or write. the president adding i felt a wonderful dialogue was building up between you and me. a combination of honey and vinegar to attract the bee. president: if and when kim kim m jong un -- i am waiting. >> the white house sent the deputy chief of staff and an advance team to singapore to meet with the north korean delegation to nail down plans for the summit. they waited for three days but the north koreans never showed. bret. >> thank you, john. north core ' says they have delivered on a promise to destroy it's main nuclear weapons testing facility. this is on news of the u.s. with drawing from the summit in singapore. we are in seoul tonight. >> north korea claimed they dismantled their nuclear test site. brought a group to watch the explosion. i wouldn't say it was spectacular but there are no international experts to confirm the claims. then a few hours later the cancellation, for now at least, by president trump of the planned summit in singapore with kim jong-un. the south korean president with president trump said perplexed by the news. he said denuclearization can't be delayed or abandoned. moon has moved to bring the crisis to a dimly mat i can resolution including his own summit last month with kim ki km jong-un on the pugh mz. >> south korea has reached out publicly. >> regional observes are hoping out hope. for now at least they say they're talking at each other. >> this is a huge bump in the road. i suppose we will have to wait to see what the north korean reaction is and the reaction of other players as well. >> it is early friday morning here on the korean peninsula. we haven't had a reaction yet from the north korean government to the white house moves. the regime has gotten better with their reaction time, recently. they may want to consider what is next after this white house decision. back to you, bret. >> live from seoul. greg, thanks. secretary of state, mik -- the conversation involved the cancellation of the north korean summit. then there was a question about foreign conflicts of interest on the part of president trump and his refuse al to release tax returns. >> i have been incredibly involved in the foreign policy and i have seen no evidence -- >> that's what i want to ask you. >> -- it's outrageous suggestion. >> no it's not. >> pompeo called the questions bizarre and outrageous. >> tonight law make tprerz both parties are mulling over information received at a pair of classified brief -gdz about the fbis investigation into the trump presidential campaign. one came at the request of the president, for republicans only. another came after considerable grousing from democrats. we are live on capitol hill tonight with details. good evening, mike. >> bret, democrats claimed they were shut out. they were ultimately included. >> after today's briefings lead by top justice and more, that president trump inserted a spy in his campaign. >> there is no evidence to support any allegation the fbi or any intelligence agency placed a spy in the trump campaign or otherwise failed to follow appropriate procedures and protocols. >> the initial plan was to meet, buin a brief statement paul ryan defended the comments of law makers. saying he looked forward to the intelligence committee promptly completing their work now they're getting the cooperation they need. on "fox and friends" president trump was asked about an attack from james comey. he tweeted yesterday "facts matter" the term is tightly regulated and essential to running the country. president: the firing of james comey will go down as a good thing. fbi is great. i know many people in the fbi. it's a fantastic institution. some of the people at the top were rotten apples. james comey was one of them. i have done a great service to this country getting rid of him and firing him. >> lindsey graham says he has serious questions of the obama justice department during the campaign of 2016. >> it's questionable. >> the president made refrpbts to clapper on twitter. saying there was spying in the campaign and large dollars were paid to the spy, far beyond normal ... >> even though there was a effort to include democrats they suggest the meet -lgz should have been canceled. >> when one party, nunez wants to distort information for partisan purposes, asks for a solitary briefing there isn't be a briefing at all. >> it appears it's a meeting that could be sharing information. that someone's interpretation could be helpful to the president's defense. >> late today clapper responded to the president accusing him of spinning and distorting what clapper said. he says he took a version of the word spy. saying they tried to figure out if the russians were trying to infiltrate the trump campaign. wret. >> thanks, mike. let's talk about today's meeting, and more with mitch mcconnel. senator, thank you for being here. >> glad to be here, bret. >> if you can, knowing you're hampered by the situation of the meeting. can you tell us built meeting on capitol hill today. >> yes it was a classified briefing of the gang of 8. the house and senate and intel committee leaders. i really can't. it was a classified briefing. that's what classified means. >> yes. were you surprised with what you learned? >> nothing particularly surprising. again it was classified. so no report to give you. >> i won't go down this hole. should congress be privy to this material if it is part of this investigation. >> yes, think occasionally briefing the gang, so called gang of 8 is good for the admin administration. they agreed to do it, we're glad they did. >> broadly about the russia probe and this investigation. james clapper is out with a new book accusing and you speaker ryan of essentially not caring about foreign interference in the to 16 election as long as president trump won. in the book he wrote ... >> your response sir. >> it's almost laughable. underestimating the h episode ad looking for others to blame. clapper knows better and shouldn't of written it. >> could you think the investigation is coming closer to an end? >> i have no idea. i think it would be great to get to a conclusion and got to a conclusion sometime soon. >> let's turn to today's news about the north ore aep north k. your reaction to that? >> i think the president did the right thing. we have seen three generations of north korean leaders engage in similar ploys to get relief from sanctions. it seems that kim jong-un is a chip off the old block. i think the president didn't want to be played with. wanted to make sure the north koreans knew he was serious. provide they didn't continue to play these games they have historically done with other administrations and have gotten away with it. i think president trump did the right thing in canceling the meeting. >> as far as diplomatic moves is your sense that the white house and expectations that this will get back on track eventually. >> i think we all hope it will. there isn't anything that wouldn't be good about korean peninsula without nuclear weapons. we hope this gets back on track. the next step, strikes me, is up to the next koreans. >> yes or no, will you cancel part of the august recess. >> i will have more to say definitively about that week after next. i have said the press corp and members here i wouldn't buy non refundable tickets. >> there is a tweet from a senator that i said he delayed his vacation. your response was, you should. if congress can't get done what they need from january to july how much will a couple of weeks help you? >> bret, this has been a period of extraordinary accomplishment. the notion that this congress hasn't done anything is utter nonsense, disproved by the facts. this has been the most productive year in a half in the time i have been in the senate. i'm now in my third decade. particularly for those who want to see the country right of center. whether it's supreme court, court of regulations, tax reform. just this week alone we passed a veteran's choice act. a major significant piece of legislation. the record of this congress is quite spectacular. we will add more achievements throughout the summer. fully intend to by taking up the farm bill, the national defense authorization act, and functioning on appropriation bills which the democrats grounded to a halt last year. we don't think that will happen this year. >> i wasn't suggesting you had nothing done. i was suggesting how much more could get done in the additional time if you choose to do that. if the house discharges position on daca succeed would you take that up? >> my thoughts on immigration. in february i brought up the subject of immigration. we spent a week on the senate floor and passed nothing. if there is a bill that clears the house then ihat will take up floor time. not to mention additional confirmations of judges and members of the executive branch pending before us. >> a couple more quick things. one is the president and this administration not just from democrats, here is senator jeff flake in pointed language yesterday. >> your national leadership is well, not good. at all. our presidentcy has been debased by a figure who seemingly has a bottomless appetite for destruction and division, only a passing familiarity of how the constitution works. and the article one branch of government, the congress, that's me, is supline and the vandalism flowing from the white house daily. >> your reaction to, that senator. >> obviously i didn't agree with. that i wish jeff would run again and stay in congress and try to have a impact. he decided to leave, to retire. he can say what he will. i don't agree. i think this has been a period of extraordinary accomplishment by the president and congress. >> senator tomby pointed out: >> it seems a push back in the republicans ranks as well. >> i tend to agree with tomb eon that as well. i worry about retaliation and impacts on american agriculture. a place where we enjoy substantial trade surpluses with the rest of the world. i think all of us hope this back and forth discussion about trade doesn't end up leading us into the implementation of tariffs or a larger trade war. >> hear anything from senator mccain? >> i haven't. i had a chance to visit him a couple of weeks ago out in arizona. hwe had a good discussion about all of the battles of the past. sometimes we were not on the same side. he's a great american. we wish he could come back. >> senator mcconnel, we appreciate your time. >> thank you. >> up next a retired navy seal is honored even as special operations come under intense scrutiny. here is what fox affiliates across the country are covering tonight. fox 5 in las vegas. police release 200 pages of reports of the worst mass shooting in american history. gun shots came so quickly one officer thought he faced a full tactical assault team. fox 6 in milwaukee, police release body footage of bucks basketball player, sterling brown. it happened in january over a parking violation. officers used a stun gun on brown. the police chief has apologized and said those involved were disciplined this. is a live look at tampa. the big story, there the forecast for the upcoming hurricane season. the national oceanic administration predicts ten to sixteen named storms in the atlantic with hurricanes. that would make it a near normal to above normal season. that's tonight's look outside the beltway special report. we're outside too. we will be right back. >> president trump is reducing regulations on commercial space companies. he signed a directive today. orders recommended reforms for more flexibility for companies sum as space x and virgin da lactic that came along after the regulationes were put in place. some of the banking regulations imposed after the 2008 financial crisis are being eliminated today. reducing restrictions of the pugh odd-frank restrictions. stocks are down today. the dow lost 75. the smp fell 5.5 the nasdaq dropped 1.5. a retired navy seal is the latest american hero receiving the medal of honor. not everyone is convinced the right decisions were made that day. national security correspondent, jennifer griffin ha, the story y from the pentagon. >> 15 years later after the mission leaving 7u.s. navy seal members dead, the award of valo- president: -- the history of the american military. this was the highest point where we ever fought. >> it was 6 months after 9-11. ten thousand feet high on a mountain top in afghanistan. >> i know he's in enemy territory. >> -- whether they should of landed on the mountain breaking protocol landing on the objective or x and whether they left a fallen comrade behind. >> we landed on top of the mountain. my helicopter took rocket propelled grenade fire right away. >> why did you have to land on the x? didn't you break protocol landing on the x. >> i was told i had to be in position by sun up. that's what i did. >> neil roberts fell out of the back of the helicopter into the snow. the army chinook crash landed four miles away. they were ordered up the mountain to rescue roberts who survived the fall. >> i said go right back to the spot. >> when they landed to rescue roberts, the airforce officer was hit. >> john goes down next to me. i could feel the bugets going through my clothes. he decides as team leader to pull back thinking khapl man is dead. >> i was on top of john looking for a sign of life. i didn't get any. no movement or sound from him. >> new evidence suggests he may not of been. >> there is criticism you left him behind. >> i can tell you i didn't -- we left no one behind. no one. what i saw, what i experienced. i know that clearly. but we didn't leave anyone behind up there. >> at the pentagon, jennifer griffin fox news. >> up next we take you to the u.s./mexico border for a ride with the first woman to lead the border patrol there. beyond the boarders tonight, russia denies involvement of the downing of a malaysia jet in 2014. dutch investigators say they have evidence. a specific russian missile brigade brought down the plane killing all 298 people aboard. late today the u.s. state department says they have complete confidence in the dutch report. voters in ireland will decide friday on a referendum to repeal the country's strict antiabortion law. it would allow the procedure during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. the traditional roman catholic country surprised people in 2015 with same-sex marriage. >> air strikes over the night say to kill -- - the pentagon says they have no information to substantiate the report. some of the other stories beyond our boarders tonight. we will be right back. >> hollywood producer harvey weinstein is expected to surrender to authorities tomorrow to face charges involving at least one woman accusing him of sexual assault. it would be the first criminal case against weinstein from the barrage of sexual abuse allegations from scores of women. those allegations destroyed his car setting off a reckoning bringing down other powerful men known as the "me too" movement. tonight we look at the president's border strategy in the rio grand valley. national correspondent is there to the. >> other runners here. >> just after take off the calls pour in. >> i will come down low and spread it open. >> agents need help tracking four separate groups. >> we're 60 miles north of the border. they flushed out a group of 16. >> you see how they run in different directions. that puts them at a great risk. >> if we miss one of the individuals they're stranded here by themselves. >> carlos is the first woman to head the border patrol. >> the rio grand valley is the busiest area on the border somewheres. >> she welcomes help from the national guard. >> over the last few years we have out paced our hiring this. is good having the national guard here. >> she wants eight here and more monitoring cameras. >> they have their cameras, technology, and sensors, doing what we don't boarders. >> this group caught these central americans crossing the border. >> we average about 500 daily it takes a lot of the man power. >> 10% of those a apprehended ae central americans. they're seeking asylum. they're so focused on processing families and minors that vast areas are left unprotected. >> 8 of individuals were illegal aliens. four were unacompanied children. >> they start this semi crammed with immigrants poking a hole in the roof to escape. >> they will keep doing it to make money. >> catching illegal immigrants is one thing. releasing them is a bigger problem. president trump has vowed but failed so far to solve. >> william, thank you. president trump has granted a rare pardon to boxing first black heavyweight champion. jack johnson's name has been cleared after a hundred years, many see a racially charged con vision. transporting his white girlfriend across state lines. actor sylvester stallone tras drawn attention to johnson's cause. he was sentenced by an all white jury. he diepugh in 1946. >> in washington the brain trusts in the republican and democrat parties are planning their midterm elections in november. tonight on capitol hill we look at the messages. the parties are trying to convey. >> the road map that has proven successful for republicans in senate primaries so far trash talk the i incumbent democrat. >> a senator working with president trump. >> ohio will move forward with the trump agenda. >> gop candidates are touting tax reform, regular tory roll backs, and flood of conservative judges to court rooms. >> you look at the supreme court nominations. our judges are filling the corrects. making good decisions based on the constitution. >> some mimic trump's anti-establishment a proefrp. look at missouri. >> they're furious that pugh c has feathered their own nest and people like claire have voted for ways to benefit them. >> democrats don't think they can claim the outside the belt way approach anymore after what they call controversies of the epa, hud, and omb. >> president trump has become the swamp. >> they say they're a better deal trying to diminish the crown jewel, tax reform. >> now the rising gas prices will cancel out the 2018 consumption worst of tax cuts. >> the president's name is being used to modivate base voters. >> the best thing we can do to stop the worst part about the trump agenda is to win the 2018 elections. >> in states trump won democrats can't all run against him. which means the party isn't totally united. >> in west virginia people like donald trump and joe. we work well together. >> that goes to show you as strategies are being crafted even law makers considered the most vulnerable are not all onboard with the messages the national leaders are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to promote. bret. >> peter, thank you. >> president trump cancels the kikim jong-un summit in singapo. we have reaction on that big event from the panel, when we come back. president: i have decided to terminate the planned summit in singapore on june 12th. i believe this is a tremendous setback for north korea and a setback for the world. hopefully positive things will be taking place with respect to the future of north core '. inorth korea.if they don't havee ready then we have ever been before. >> the art of diplomacy is the heart of the deal. >> i think it's good for kim kim jong-un. he got a letter from the president that said, never mind. he must be having a giggle fit. kim jong-un is the big winner. >> nancy pelosi talking about this letter that the president tweeted out himself. among the outreach though is a future line in here, if you change your mind, having to do with this most important summit please do not hesitate to call me or write. the world and nort north korea particularly has missed a opportunity is truly sad moment in history. let's bring in our panel. tom, your thoughts on how this all came down today. >> i think the basic point here is that president trump is leaving clearly an opening to towards continuing the summit on june 12th as previously been arranged. in my opinion that will happen. i think you see coming from behind the scenes here is a pressure calculation on the part of the chinese to see how far they can push president trump. i think the cancellation was directed at beijing as well. the second part kim jong-un recognizes the symbolism of the attending of the senate is as complicated as concessions he is expected to make. think the summit will go ahead on june 12th. >> to that point a fox news alert here. in the last few seconds north korea says trump's decision to scrap the summit is not in line with the world's wishes. north korea says they're willing to resolve issues with the u.s., ka* according to state run media. this develops by the day, by the hour. pholgy. >molly.>> i think it's disappoig but not completely surprising. you see north korea and the u.s. pretty far apart. north korea proposed what we have seen in past decades. a pledge to eventually denuclearize. the u.s. says that won't work anymore. we want it up front, accountability and a timeline. we heard communications had broken down. i agree with tom it's not the end of the line but a negotiation process. what is interesting about the report here is people were careful whether north korea would say we're willing to make this happen and work towards it or if they would respond with the missile tests and other belligerent attitudes. it's a long ball game still. >> amy we're getting from the north koreans that north korea is willing to talk to the united states anytime in a response of the decision to pull out of the summit saying they want to resolve the issues. you heard senator mcconnel say the next step is north korea's and this is it. >> i'm fascinated to watch the way in which americans are reacting to this. take away the back and forth here in washington. in polling what we have seen the last couple of weeks is across the board this is republicans, democrats, and independents were given the idea of a sit down between the president and kim jong-un high marks. they liked the idea. in the last cnn poll people saw this as trump's most positive move and he received his highest marks. the american public over all is saying i like where this is going, we haven't seen anything like this, let's troy it. if thi this goes wildly off trar the summit doesn't happen or more saber rattling from north korea or south korea does something there is a continuing sort of chaos, does that then ultimately impact the way that voters not only see the president but ultimately the way he handles any other foreign policy or foreign policy crisis? >> right. tom, quickly wrap this up. >> yes, i think the north korean's know they have a interest skpeugt down at the summit. beijing wants this. they want to see it trump is mallable. the letter suggests he is not. the message we see from the north, that's as nice as it gets from the north koreans. >> a love letter. next up investigations into the trump campaign and whether there was a informer, a spy in the team. we will break that down next. >> it would be great if we got to a conclusion and got to a conclusion sometime soon. >> a reflection on the meetings today. two different meetings. the first one dealing with this group of folks. you see the first meeting on, from the doj including the white house chief of staff there. then the second meetings with the democrats including. this included the gang of eight being briefed as well. again not details on what happened in the meetings. not surprising was the characterization from the senate majority >> how much surveillance and wire taps. national security letters and human intelligent agents were used to cur have a the donald trump campaign. a lot of people are pretending this isn't a huge issue. i think most americans would say this is breathtaking. >> someone talked to me the other day. they said it's sort of like looking at two different walls, pictures and connections. different people in different political ideologies looking at two different walls of the connections. your thoughts on how this is coming together. >> yes, certain ly it will play heavily as a interlink with the horowitz report coming out. whatever the president decides to do with special councils on the on going investigation. one thing that is notable. you see the best proof in an open source sense. something we can see at face value that coates attended the meeting. that is notable. counter intelligence investigations. normally the fbi takes pred i cation. why was he there, i think he was there to make the case on the part of foreign intelligence and relationships with the united states playing a roll in generating leads that got to the points that molly mentioned. specifically >> was there a good reason. i think this is appropriate to look at and needs to be bipartisan. >> that's the point. there is suppose to be checks and balances. there should be looks at this in a bipartisan way to see if there are abuses. if that's not the case we need to move on. the pwabgt and forth you said it perfectly the idea of two walls. whatever you think about the president determines how you feel if this is a big crisis or whether it's not. if the shoe was on the other foot and it was hillary clinton as president there would be different coverage on what was going on based on who you are and what you think about hillary clinton. the best place to keep this is where it is now. a special council for a reason. a process for a reason. there will be hopefully a report we get to see. from there we will have all of the evidence in front of us instead of the stuff being dribbled out here and there. some leaked by republicans. some leaked by democrats. we don't know what any of it means really. >> we have zero indication that special council is looking into abuses by the fbi. we don't have evidence that the ig is. that's why congress sub evening the information needs to get it an oversight body. >> we will talk more about this. panel, thank you. when we come back little girls with big dreams. but what if ai could find connections faster. to help this researcher discover new treatments. that's why she's working with watson. it's a smart way to find new hope, which really can't wait. ♪ ♪ still nervous [about buying a house? a little. thought i could de-stress with some zen gardening. at least we don't have to worry about homeowners insurance. just call geico. geico helps with homeowners insurance? good to know. 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and 7 sent to me sat on my desk the last few months and motivated me daily. in their own words and pictures they expressed their excitement about the opportunity my nomination represented and to aliza and zoe i simply say, we did it. >> haspel said there were countless role models in her life and that's it for this press report, fair, balanced and unafraid. here's martha. >> martha: thank you, bret. breaking tonight, a new report just moments ago says north korea, according to state media is saying the decision to scrapping the summit is not in line with the world's wishes and they are willing to resolve the issue. that's the latest after the summit was skutd -- scut ald and north korea blamed in part our interview. >> they reached out and said they would suspend nuclear testing and suspend the ballistic testing and be willing to achieve complete denuclearization through
IrelandMalaysiaSeoulSoul-t-ukpyolsiSouth-koreaSingaporeDallasTexasUnited-statesNetherlandsCapitol-hillDistrict-of-columbia trump's bygate claim? awarded the medal of honor to a former navy seal for popular assault and rescue mission. jennifer griffin has an exclusive interview for the man the commander-in-chief is calling a courageous warrior. i am shannon bream in washington. donald trump's decision to cancel the north korean summit in singapore catching south korea off court. north korea seemingly making the case to get the summit back on track. what may have led to the pres.'s decision? senior foreign affairs correspondent in south korea with the latest developments. >> it is damage control time, donald trump's moved to pool out next month. secretary of state pompeo on the phone with his south korean counterpart saying the commitment to further dialogue with north korea and they would continue efforts to bring conditions for us north korea talks. overnight install, south korean pres. moon urged direct talks between donald trump and pres. moon saying it cannot be abandoned or delayed. the white house canceling the summit calling it regrettable. most noticeable reaction came from the regime itself of kim jong un. a statement from the vice foreign minister saying backing from the regime, willingness to sit down and talk face-to-face with the united states, open-mindedness to give the us side the time and opportunity to talk. threatening among other things a nuclear showdown. that seem to be the final push to get the white house to pull out of the summit. this comes following thursday's claimed dismantlement of the only known nuclear testing site, a small group of foreign journalists witnessed an exposure in the destruction of tunnels and buildings linked to past tests. not invited and this is crucial, expert observers who could confirm the claim. by the way, the closer was literally left in the dust by donald trump's moved to get out of the summit but some analysts this morning think perhaps north korea us diplomacy could prize from the rubble. shannon: we will wait and see. we are learning new details from the white house why the president decided to pull the plug on the summit at least for now. kristen fisher walks us through the pres.'s vision making. >> this is something the president has been mulling for the last week or so but things escalated last night when a senior administration official says the president was briefed about the latest summit, threatening a nuclear showdown, the president slept on it and got together with the vice president, secretary of state and national security advisor. they talked it over and donald trump dictated every single word of this letter. the first direct communication made public from the us president to a leader of north korea. he writes i'm looking forward to being there with you and to cancel the summit in singapore, sadly based on the tremendous anger and open hostility displayed in your most recent statement i feel it is inappropriate at this time to have this long planned meeting. >> i decided to terminate the plan summit in singapore june 12th. >> reporter: not just the latest statement from north koreans threatening to meet us at a meeting room or encounters are in a nuclear showdown that showed the president to call it off. a senior administration official blames it on the north koreans being a no-show last week in singapore. they didn't telus anything, the official said, simply stood us up and the us made numerous attempts to communicate but they never responded and on top of all of the, the north koreans destroy a nuclear test site but no international experts were there to verify it is initially promised. >> positive things taking place with respect to the future of north korea. if they don't we are more ready than we have ever been before. >> donald trump reminding north korea of the real balance of power but also sent sweeteners to kim jong un urging him that if he changes his mind do not hesitate to call me. >> if and when kim jong un chooses to engage in constructive dialogue and actions, i am waiting. >> the pres.'s policy of maximum pressure continues. the white house says the ball is in north korea's court. shannon: one of the most interesting potential letters i have ever seen it looks like they're coming back to the table tonight. capitol hill weighing in on the canceled summit, republican congressman joe wilson, member of the house armed services and foreign relations committee is one of two members of congress, pyongyang, thanks for joining us tonight. >> i appreciate our shared virginia heritage. >> talk about what happened in this letter from the president, there were some passages, i include this one as well. the pres. says you talk about nuclear capabilities but hours are so massive and powerful that i prayed to god they will never have to be used. do you think there were antics in this letter? what works better? >> promises made promises kept, the president promised that unless the negotiations could lead to denuclearization he would withdraw and know the north korean foreign ministry issued a threat so the pres. acted decisively and north korea says we will meet anytime anywhere. shannon: that turned around from the foreign minister saying this is not the way we thought we would go, let's get together and keep talking. what do you make of the fact the left has jumped on this, we will talk about this later, he is not going to get the nobel prize, he doesn't know what he's doing, members of congress on the left have said we are glad the president walked away, the right thing to do, but he still doesn't know what he is doing. >> another example of trump derangement syndrome. good news for the american people, we have the leadership of mike pompeo and ambassador john bolton and nikki haley, the president has a team in place that will protect american families. >> i want to read this from the foreign leader, what they are saying today, the abrupt announcement of the cancellation of this unexpected for this and we cannot but find it regrettable. we state our willingness to sit face-to-face at any time in any form to resolve the problem. how quickly do you think the white house responds or gets this back on track? does the june 12th date hold? what do you think happens next? >> whether it be june 12th or wherever, the doors open and there has been the release of the hostages of the regime that murdered otto warmbier and i'm proud of donald trump and the difference he is making for american families. jillian: shannon: he said it was wonderful to let those three americans come home. there was praise for him in this letter and something house minority leader nancy pelosi made fun of, kim jong un must be having a giggle fit reading this letter, it was way too nice, almost a valentine to the north korean leader. >> i think it was a well-written letter, pretty interesting, doesn't have to be so diplomatic. we have a leader who is protecting american families and the national defense authorization act was passed by congress, we are rebuilding the military, the president living up to his promises to rebuild our military through peace through strength. shannon: you have seen the video of the nuclear test site, it was said the buildings underneath, what do you make of that. is that a legitimate way to assess this? we don't have experts on site. >> we don't have full verification but that is encouraging too. who would ever have imagined, the far left would have dismissed this as never being able to occur. whatever occurred it was a step forward and i'm grateful to the leadership of donald trump. shannon: two critical meetings, they talked about the intelligence that republicans have been trying to get. republicans and democrats in this meeting, all about what the president is calling spy gate, feeding information from the trump campaign to the agency. and henry has insights. >> no surveillance at all, they are trying to calibrate it but i'm getting new drips of information. these lawmakers discussing highly classified information, devon nunez saying they cannot discuss sensitive information but people who have been briefed on the take aways, no doubt there was surveillance of the trump campaign. they are saying it was not spying. they are saying it was very normal when surveillance of the campaign is anything but normal. government officials are trying to say the fbi counterintelligence investigation was not directed at the trump campaign but at russia. even if surveillance was directed at russia the one or more informants the fbi was using were interacting with trump campaign official so it was still surveillance, what is interesting is this claim by doj official this was normal, we heard that talk already, officials like james clapper, trying to tear apart comments by clapper and james comey, clapper charging the pres. is twisting his words, spying in the campaign. spygate, a terrible thing. and top officials stopped by today. image flood helped defend bill clinton during impeachment. mark warner on the senate install panel in the middle of the special counsel probe and they did not state to make brief remarks. the pres.'s desire under the law. >> pretty unusual to have an investigation. and the checks and balances. >> nothing change the view that there was no evidence to support any allegation of the fbi, and the trump campaign. and he house committees, dragon audi and bob goodlatte bringing in 3 officials to testify about her handling of the hillary clinton email bro. put that together with the inspector general report that is coming out, a lot more bubbling. i spoke to people who were digging in on this was a calls bygate with evidence to wrap it up? this time there's going to be evidence. shannon: to have democrats say there was absolutely nothing and talk about how upset they were these two white house official there, the white house left before there was any -- >> a lot of sparring. shannon: the intelligence briefings today part of the pres. tweeting he wants an investigation into what he calls spygate. julian turner explains fbi informants. >> we call it spygate, you are calling it spygate. >> reporter: donald trump accusing the fbi of going broke. during a committal investigation into russian meddling in the 2016 election the bureau overseas authority and spies on the campaign. when administration's by is another administration's confidential human informants. >> rather to determine what the russians are doing. doing their job trying to protect the political system. >> the justice department launched its own investigation about the truth and some intelligence insiders chronic politics. >> they should have known better poking around with intelligence powers that affect the products and outcome of the presidential election, there were steps that were missed in this process, abuses at a minimum of authority. >> reporter: donald trump demanding clarity by twitter, who authorized the alleged covert operation and when. >> a human source was knowingly being run against members of the trump campaign we have to assume that was known at the atty. gen. levelland made straight from the atty. gen.'s office to the president of the united states at the time, barack obama. >> reporter: because of executive privilege we might never know if authorization was ever that high. they say the current standoff between the pres. and fbi can only end once the american people have all the relevant information. jillian: democrats attended the intelligence briefing today questioning the administrative motive, two white house staff evers, a chief of staff, john kelly, even though the parent left before classified information was discussed. and where it was characterized, they made an opening statement in both these meetings about what the pres. expects and then they left and there were some who were unhappy about that. sen. warner was the top democrat, ranking member and for the record the pres.'s chief of staff and his attorney with an ongoing presidential campaign have no business showing up with classified intelligence briefing. what do you make of it? >> they actually didn't attend the classified intelligence briefing. what happens is they adhere to the proper role, they reminded the justice public official, the pres. demanded expects transparency, he relayed the message to the pres.'s appointees and got the heck out. they were not there for the classified intelligence briefing and this is typical washington political attacks. shannon: sort of an intimidation factor to say we are keeping an eye on this whole thing. you think they were in their proper roles? >> administration officials coming to brief congress that the president would tell people be transparent, be forthcoming, i want you to share this information. how can we properly exercise our oversight role if we don't have information. the justice department is trying to say we are happy to share information but if we disclose too maturation it compromises our ability to this investigation. i think the white house and the president is just trying to make sure the justice department is being as transparent as they could. >> the executive branch some people forget about or are not aware of. moving forward adam schiff is top democrat on the house intelligence committee says he was not moved by what he saw. we're is what he said after the meeting. >> nothing we heard changed our view that there was no evidence to support any allegation the fbi or any intelligence agency placed a spy in the trump campaign or failed to follow appropriate procedures and protocols. shannon: we've not gotten much from inside the meeting. and able to see a lot of things. >> what we are seeing, democrats portray this as no one placed a spy in the trump campaign. the justice surveillance operation, connected with the trump campaign, at least in the mind of democrats that is not trying but permissible surveillance. we have not heard the last of it. i don't know if republicans were satisfied, and this dispute is not going away anytime soon. >> a series of questions will come from that as well. >> it seems everyone has an investigation going on. and seeing the evidence they have uncovered. >> a new investigation every week, we are standing by. how is that nobel prize working out? 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[ chuckles ] download the xfinity my account app and set a password you can easily remember. one more way comcast is working to fit into your life, not the other way around. >> shannon: this is a fox news alert. a man entered a restaurant in oklahoma city tonight opening shannon: a man entered the restaurant in oklahoma city opening fire, injuring at least two people. a bystander armed with a pistol took aim at the shooter and killed him. they are expected to survive, we know about the apparent hero of the moment, police are calling him and armed citizen. not just of the credit lawmakers marking the pres. over the decision to pull out of the summit with north korea, they are poking fun at everything, the commemorative coin to the prospects of winning the nobel peace prize. editor of the halftime report joins us to discuss that. here is what they had to say. >> is this a surprise. the wall has not been closed. the swamp is filled. >> how to his folks feel about how this stuff happens. >> is risky from north korea, this was a dicey play, a lot of the pres.'s supporters, and don't stray commemorative coins, manage expectations. people nominating trump for nobel peace prize redoing him no favors. i'm nominating you for a nobel peace prize. and at a certain point it becomes, the big fear, the deal is looking bad. >> anytime you want to talk, we are ready. >> that, you can't fire me, i quit. the pres. knew this was going south, he bailed. i thought you wanted to talk, i had no idea, i am so hurt, i am here if you want to call. it is statecraft and stagecraft but for domestic political purposes for the pres. his friends who hype this to such a great degree, whatever happens in the future, manage expectations. if you like the guy, manage expectations. shannon: all the democrats on the hill start trolling his people, it makes them even more loyal, all these people working against our president every single day and he is right about them. trolling is a big thing. let's talk about the case in oregon. a kid who wears a t-shirt to school and it says donald j trump border wall construction company. the shirt had a quote from the pres. saying the wall got 10 feet taller. he was told he couldn't wear it unless he covered it up. 's is a teacher who all year long had a pro sanctuary city poster in her room. if she could keep the poster a but he could not where the pro-border wall shirt. >> this is what we are told which i don't know enough about school rules to know if they were favorably enforced. shannon: clothing decorator are marked with illustrations, words or phrases that are disruptive or potentially disruptive and or promote superiority of one group over another, not permitted. >> i and a school you would not be allowed to wear that shirt. there would be no way. shannon: what about the present city policy? >> i would tell teachers not to have that either if i were head master of the school, i would forbid any of that going on in the classroom. people are there to learn, not control each other. what i don't understand here, much like i don't understand the case of the guy who sued because a bar in greenwich village would not serve him, why are you suing in federal court? your mother told you not to make a federal case out of it and this is what she is talking about. it is unfortunate he had a bad day, he was suspended for his refusal. shannon: that was later rescinded. >> he is graduating, go on with life, sometimes things are unfair, you know what you got to do, move down the trail to happier pasture. shannon: if the teacher was treated the same way he was maybe it would be fair but these folks feel if you have a trump position they are coming after you so he is making a federal case out of it. night court is going to weigh in. >> we have the counselor in residence. shannon: you can plan attorney on tv. >> i could, a bad one. shannon:'s partner from donald trump to the late african-american heavyweight boxing champion jack johnson. trace gallagher explains who we as and no other pres. pardons him before. >> reporter: the pres.'s pardon of jack johnson drew praise from jack johnson from a famous actor who portrayed a boxer, sylvester stallone who attended the ceremony called donald trump last month asking him to consider the pardon. jack johnson became boxing's first black heavyweight champ defeating tommy burns in 1908 but in 1913 johnson was convicted by an all-white jury as for violating the man ask making it illegal to transport a woman across state lines for immoral purposes. the law was intended to crack down on sex trafficking but historians note it was used to stop interracial marriage. after he was convicted johnson fled the us and continued boxing overseas until years later when he agreed to return to the us and serve 10 months in prison. johnson died in a car crash in 1946 at the age of 68. in recent years senate majority leader harry reid and sen. john mccain called for jensen -- johnson to be pardoned, their plea was ignored by previous presidents but donald trump who promoted mike tyson in 1980s said it was his honor and about time. >> very important because we write a wrong. >> reporter: after the ceremony john mccain tweeted this action right the historical wrong, restores an athlete's legacy and closes a shameful chapter in our history. former heavyweight champ george foreman tweeted jack johnson, it is about time, two things he loved, boxing and america, now he will be rewarded by both. here is sylvester stallone. >> somehow he still managed to perseverance kept a smile on his face. truly an inspirational character. this has been a longtime coming. >> reporter: lennox lewis was at the white house for the partners was current heavyweight champion dante wilder. jack johnson finished his career with 73, 13, 10, and he fought exhibitions until he was 67. shannon: thank you so much. up next a special report from national correspondent jennifer griffin. she interviews a navy seal awarded medal of honor by donald trump today. what really happened in the deadly 2002 firefight is in the subject of great controversy. you will get to hear his story. >> what about the critics who say the decision she made got people killed that day? 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did you break protocol by landing on the x? >> i was going to land at another location and make my move on foot. there were other changes that forced me to adapt my plan. >> reporter: what were those changes? >> i had to be in position by sunup and that is what i did. >> reporter: new evidence is shedding light on that fateful day. while taking enemy fire petty ofc. neil roberts fell out into the snow. the chin a helicopter crash landed four miles away. slabinski went back up the mountain to rescue a fellow seal who survived the call. slabinski remembered his boy scout training. >> eyes on me, they were looking at me, no place to go, had to go back up to the spot. i am thinking sorry for what is about to come. i love you. >> one of the pilots, chief warrant officer alan mack, the helicopter was shot up on the previous attempt to land, volunteered to fly the team into harms way. >> it was out's voice, wished the team leader good luck. >> reporter: a team leader, technical sgt. john chapman's job was to call in air strikes. he was hit almost immediately by machine gunfire after stepping out of the helicopter. >> quite a few enemy fighters up there. they were being torn apart. >> i didn't see roberts at all. 10 or 15 feet from me during this time. give the order to move out, looking for some sign of life, no movement or sound or anything. >> reporter: the hasty retreatment chapman's body remained where he was shot by enemy fighters. there has been criticism you left him behind. >> i can tell you we left no one behind, no one. what i saw, what i experienced. >> reporter: what about those critics who say decisions you made got people killed that day and that is not what the medal of honors for? >> the commander is in the field, the best possible information available at the time. to do that, very stressful time. >> reporter: do you think chapman survived? >> wasn't what i experienced. >> reporter: drone footage enhanced by new technology became available that appears to show a loan fighter battling on the top, special operations forces tell fox news they believe chapman fought on after the seal team retreated. he is slated to receive the medal of honor. back on the mountain in the midst of a tough fight, slabinski heard the rotor blades to the same spot where two helicopters had already been chopped. >> why didn't you radio before hand? >> radios had limited range. by the time i got to the right frequency they had been shot down. >> reporter: 5 mirrors of the rescue team -- >> up there all day. no less deserving. >> reporter: and interview slabinski, shooting the course of enemy combatants. >> shot 20 times in the leg and every time you take him or shoot him you can see his body twitching. >> if you could hear the whole clip of that, he was still engaging. >> reporter: there is some criticism about the 2007 operation and accused of sending the squadron out to bring the head back on a platter. would you do that? >> every day, 26 years, honor and integrity, did not waiver. >> reporter: do you have regrets? >> i don't have any regrets. >> reporter: at the pentagon, jennifer griffin, fox news. shannon: on the eve of a big decision voters and i would head to the polls to decide if they will list the country of long-standing ban on abortion. we have the latest when we come back. this is no ordinary coffee. it's single-origin kenyan coffee from the nyeri highlands, 6,000 feet above sea level. but how do you really know that the beans journeyed to the port of mombasa and across the pacific? that you can trust they're 100% authentic? ibm blockchain. a smart way to track every step, ensuring this coffee did indeed come from 6,000 feet above sea level. and not a foot lower. ♪ ♪ >> i was constitution recognizes right to life of the unborn but that could be overturned, based on results of a referendum. the latest from dublin. >> final day swinging that way, and unpredictable referendum. synthesized messaging, no, and yes, trying to focus the mind of undecided voters. each campaign having the most persuasive argument. they ended a constitutional ban on abortion to bring abortion culture to irish schools. >> abortion on demand, the referendum, very extreme proposal. >> reporter: house minister simon harris insisting the time has come for irish women suffering from life-threatening or crisis pregnancies to be cared for at home. >> it is a proposal that would face up to the reality, stop women having to leave our shores to get access to health care. >> make no mistake these campaigners are going to be out until the polls were closed because the stakes are so high. it has taken decades of lifting a constitutional ban on abortion even on the ballot paper. politicians are very clear, it will not be revisited anytime soon. >> this is a conclusive result for the foreseeable future and we have to respect that. >> reporter: it has been divisive, bitter, at times toxic but it has given voice to many women too. island won't be the same after saturday whichever way the country votes. shannon: the supreme leader of iran laying out demands to preserve the nuclear deal donald trump withdrew from, including guaranteeing iran oil sales, safeguarding trade against un sanctions and promising not to seek new negotiations on the missile program. the ayatollah warning, quote, the europeans linger over our demands, iran has the right to resume nuclear activities which when we see the iran nuclear deal was useless one way forward is to restart those halted activities. german chancellor angela merkel and the chinese leader affirming their commitment to the iran deal, angela merkel morning any un sanctions could drive you in companies out of iran while opening the country up to china. investigators offering the strongest evidence yet that russia was responsible for the downing of malaysia airlines flight 17 over eastern ukraine four years ago. investigators say their video analysis proves the missile that brought down the plane came from a russia based military unit. hollywood mogul who gave rise to the me too movement will surrender to police tomorrow. that story and the real news roundup is next. really helped me up my game. i had a coach. math. ooh. so, why don't traders have coaches? 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"fox and friends first," happening right now at 3:00 am, a fox news alert. >> if and when kim jong un chooses to engage in constructive dialogue i am waiting. in the meantime maximum pressure campaign will continue. heather: north korea changing its tune after donald trump pulled the plug on the sums, will the two leaders meet face-to-face or is kim jong un back to his old antics?
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>> hey, dana. we will get to that event in a moment. but it is late here in seoul. we are now getting reaction from the south korean government to the events of the past couple of hours. south korean president moon jae-in in special session with the national security staff urging direct talks between president trump and kim jong un saying, i'm quoting, "denuclearization cannot be delayed or abandoned." the president here seemed to be a bit blind sided by events. he was "quite perplexed" by the statement coming from president trump. he called it regrettable. president trump said he spoke by phone with south korean president moon including about the military readiness in the region. that has to be a bit of a blow to the south korean. he has been working for months to get a diplomatic resolution of the crisis including his own summit last month with kim jong un along the d.m.z. again, the white house summit cancellation seems to stem from statement from the regime. especially to, quote/unquote, "libya model" regarding north korea from our experience here. pyongyang takes that to mean regime change and hates it. also getting the white house angry, the threat to go nuclear to nuclear in a showdown between the countries. we understand also that president trump spoke to japanese president abe a firm ally in the region. and yes, now on to the event to the northeast of where we are. ironically this was supposed to be a day when the region moved closer to peace. north korea claiming thursday it completely dismantled the nuclear test site in the northeast corner of the country. foreign reporters were at the scene, they said there was an explosive closure of the tunnels there. there were no international experts confirming what was said. this was largely seen as a p.r. gesture in advance of that planned summit. now that summit for the moment is not to be. yes, it is late here, dana. we have not gotten any keep of reaction from -- any kind of reaction from north korea. they have been better reacting now than they have in the past and we might hear something on friday. we'll see. back to you. >> dana: we'll come right back to you, greg. thank you. to help us break it down. jamile jaffers, former adviser to the house intelligence committees. glad to have you. it has been disorienting to have kim jong un be so cordial. he did release the american hostages and it looked like we were full steam ahead. what do you know about the china angle here? also, is it somewhat, a little more comforting when you realize oh, this is the kim jong un family we know? we have respect for the process, for the summit but we are not going to go there and be snookered. >> that is right, dana. look. china obviously is a big player in the region. they are ultimately the backer of the north korea regime. without china there is nothing for north korea. they don't have any support. they are inclined to go where china tells them to go. it's interesting that the aggressive statement came after meeting with the china leader. it's not clear if he said i want to get more aggressive or china said you need to be more aggressive. either way, what you are seeing here is two leaders sort of going toe to toe to say i can cancel, you can cancel, i can talk about nuclear war and so can you. at the end of the day, while the tensions heated up a little bit, president canceled the summit but i bet it's back open in two weeks. >> dana: the president did leave the door open for that. every actor here involved, china, japan, south korea, united states and certainly north korea are acting in their country's best interest. help me understand. why is it in china's interest for the summit not to go forward? >> look, at the end of the day what is in china's interest is to have a north korea that comes back in line and does right thing here. but also north korea that is strong relative to south korea. at the end of the day what they see, they use the cold war terms. the u.s. has a fear of influence. south korea. china, north korea, so they need to balance it off. if it looks like trump has the upper hand china says we want you to back off. north korea feels the same way. so not clear if it's china pulling the strings or north korea reacting to say we want to do this and china says yep, that sounds fine to us. >> dana: anything the president does comes with some criticism from some parts of the country. richard haas from the foreign policy circles tweeted the summit was bound to failed as trump badly overestimated what north korea agree to. the issue is and was the u.s. willing to accept outcome short of total denuclearization. all or nothing foreign policy with north korea, iran, china, trade risks producing nothing but or conflict. "i wonder what you think of this. you were instrumental to guide republican side members of congress as president obama moved forward on the iran deal. what parallels do you see here? >> look, you can always talk about half measures. if you want foreign policy of half measures, fine. incrementals, that is fine. donald trump going for a big prize here. that comes with some cost. everyone was amazed that donald trump could pull off a big meeting like this. i think it still happens in the long run but on america's terms. that is the right way to negotiate. if it looks like we want it too much like the iran deal they will string you out and get a variety of concessions. that is what happened with obama and president trump says it won't happen to me. >> dana: isn't the issue here what denuclearization means? kim jong un is in a stronger position because he now has the weapons. we say no, you have to give up the weapons if you want the other things that the president said could be good for your country. the definition of "denuclearization" is the key here. >> you are right. that is the key. the challenge here is donald trump might have a different view of what denuclearization means. the u.s. position has been no nuclear weapons on the korean peninsula, out completely. kim jong un might agree with that. but he may mean i'll denuclearize when you denuclearize. that is unsustainable scenario. we see what is met here but part of why you want to get to the place they are talking to one another and understand the terms before you go in negotiations. >> dana: one thing that is different is before the whole process, before mike pompeo the new secretary of state had gone over to north korea, actually met with him. we didn't have any sort of relationship. so that is different. and i think you are right. it will probably take place at some point but maybe not in two weeks. jamil, thank you. >> thanks, dana. >> dana: we are keeping an eye outside the second justice department meeting on the allegedfein infor -- alleged f.b.i. informant targeting the trump campaign. what will come out of after the political back and forth on who is attending. mitzi: psoriatic arthritis tries to get in my way? watch me. 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we all know that we can all think of extreme examples. if you get down to looking at a particular document it's categorizing that document where it's okay to be turned over or not. it's not resolved in court. it's resolved in this type of negotiation. >> dana: for the gang of eight, that was the request yesterday from pelosi and schumer saying look, the democrats, there is a process for this. the gang of eight exists. that was added yesterday. i want to ask you about the intel community, the former intel community. and what they said about the importance of this process. they said in a letter when overnight activity -- oversight activity is bipartisan it can serve on check and any effort to exclude one party or the other threatens to undermine the oversight function and sends the wrong signal about the professional nonpolitical manner that must govern intelligence activities. how important is that? >> it's important for the perception standpoint. i don't think it's important legally at all. perception wise it does help. frankly, with this whole investigation, i mean that horse is so far out of the barn in terms of having a perception that this is nonpartisan that i'm not sure there is much we can do about it now. but i think that it probably helps if both sides are there. things aren't mischaracterized and there is not a fight over who said what. this is probably some benefit to have both sides there. >> dana: these are classified briefings so by law, nothing should leak out of them. we will see if that happens. >> trump, by the way, the president could declassify anything he wanted. that is the thing about being the head of the executive branch that makes this unusual. >> dana: do you think he is being deferential to the justice department and saying look, i know you have to do your thing so i'll give you room here to run the process as you see fit? >> well, i think he is having it both ways. fairly deftly, frankly, through the use of twitter, he is hammering the department. to keep in the good graces of the freedom caucus types but at the end of the day the fact he hasn't declassified it or demanded it to be released, and he could -- they are subordinates to him -- and he is holding their feet to the fire and make sure they are not overly broad to hold it back. >> dana: another story, now to the mueller investigation. so the back-and-forth to whether or not the president should do an interview. rudy giuliani had said he does not want his client, the president, to do an interview but now he is saying he is open to considering the idea of a trump-mueller interview and says basically his client wants to do it and he wants to make his client happy. where do you think this stands? >> i'm glad he is open to it. he has to be open to it. the president is his client. if you are the lawyer at the end of the day, it's the client's call. i agree with the vast majority of lawyers that i would never recommend that the president do a voluntary interview from a strictly legal perspective. but the president has broader political concerns as well. he may disagree with that. for his intention for overstatement or hyperbole, when these questions require specific answers it wouldn't be a great dynamic for him. >> dana: do you think the president thinks if he does the interview because he maintained his innocence, if he does the interview it will end? >> i think certainly giuliani has said that publicly. i think that may be driving the president's thinking is hey, if i can sit down for four hours, i didn't do anything so really what bad could come out of this? because there is nothing for me to "lie" about. i'll just do it, get it behind me and be done by september as giuliani promised. but the president has been promised this sending before by ty cobb by thanksgiving, christmas and then january. >> dana: i know. >> so, that may be driving what he thinks. which the lawyers may not agree with but at the end of the day we all have clients when you practice law. he is the ultimate client that knows he is in charge. >> dana: all right. bob driscoll, thank you for being here. >> thank you, dana. >> dana: so the trump administration working to bring down the cost of prescription drugs. f.d.a. commissioner scott gottlieb joins me to explain how they are doing it despite opposition from major pharmaceutical companies. ♪ ♪ you said you're not like me, ♪ ♪ never drop to your knees, ♪ ♪ look into the sky for a momentary high, ♪ ♪ you never even tried till it's time to say goodbye, bye ♪ ♪ everybody fights for a little bit of light, i believe. ♪ geico motorcycle, great rates for great rides. i'm trying to manage my a1c, then i learn type 2 diabetes puts me at greater risk for heart attack or stroke. can one medicine help treat both blood sugar and cardiovascular risk? 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which may cause kidney problems. change the course of your treatment. ask your doctor about victoza®. >> dana: the food and drug administration taking aim at leading pharmaceutical companies as the trump administration vows to lower the cost of prescription drugs. the f.d.a. publicly calling out firms that block efforts to produce generic versions of many popular medications. dr. scott gottlieb is commissioner of the food and drug administration and joins me now. thank you for being here. >> thank you. >> dana: you were going to be on late last week and because of the unfortunate, the sad situation in texas we weren't able to do this. but just last week you made an announcement saying that the issue of getting drugs to generics is a high priority and it's the best way to try to get the prices down. how was that actually met in terms of reaction from the pharmaceutical companies? >> we are taking steps to bring competition in the market across a range of different efforts. last week we published the names of company where generic firms come to us telling us they are having problems getting access to the doses of the brand of the company drugs they need to do clinical studies to get the generic drugs on the market in the first place. so we know that sometimes companies adopt tactics to make it hard for the generic companies to get the closage closage -- dosage for the approval. so we publish a list of the 50 drugs where the generic firms are having a hard time. >> dana: the o.e.c.d., the organization for economic cooperation and development says that the average citizen's prescription drug cost in 2015 in different companies, u.k. is $479. and the united states is $1,116. do you think if you were able to get more of the drugs to the generics that the united states, commitment on that would dramatically decline? >> there is not a silver bullet here. there is no single solution. but getting more competition in the market has an impact on the prices. this is not just jeer if -- generic drugs. it's also branded drugs. we have to have price competition. people with monopolies don't have them in perpetuity. >> dana: let me ask about one other thing. the house passed the right to try bill. take a listen to president trump on that the other day. >> president trump: right to try passed. we'll sign it possible sometime next week. this gives people hope. we can go, they will sign a waiver and they will use what they need. and in this cases they will be helped. >> dana: this has been a big priority for some for a long time. do you think it will have an impact on people seeking some sort of hope in trials? >> we think it would. we have a long-standing commitment to try to provide promising drugs to parents who are out of options and have terminal conditions. we do a good job of that. we get a lot of drugs to people facing long odds other terminal diseases. we think this is a way to get access to products in certain situations and we look forward to implement it. >> dana: i'll ask about another topic sure to get attention if it does spread. that is the issue of ebola. in congo there have been a couple of cases that have come up, that forces there, the healthcare forces are trying to contain it. what sort of risks do we have here in the united states if this does not stay contained? >> well, i think the risk to us in the u.s. is minimal. but we are not out of the woods with respect to the d.r.c. there are some cases popped up there that are unaccounted for and that means we haven't been able to trace back how the people got the infection. so that leaves open to question there may be additional people who are going to come down with ebola there and additional people who are infected. we have had a paradigm change. we have gone from posture of containment to one we are able to offer protection with a new vaccine. >> dana: how is that able to get to the people there? i know distribution to this type of vaccine is sometimes difficult in africa. >> this one in particular because it has to be kept in a very cold temperature. so they have been able to do it. they got it to the major city. up to 8,000 doses in. there are many more doses they could bring in, if they have to. they have been able to bring in the logistics to get the vaccine distributed to the people who have been in contact with some of those infected. >> dana: all right. the f.d.a. commissioner scott gottlieb. thank you for joining us. >> thanks a lot. >> dana: president trump set to present a former navy seal with the medal of honor. we'll bring it to you live when it happens. plus, is the nfl letting politics affect its decision on kneeling during the national anthem. liberty mutual saved us almost $800 when we switched our auto and home insurance. with liberty, we could afford a real babysitter instead of your brother. >>hey. oh, that's my robe. >>is it? when you switch to liberty mutual, you could save $782 on auto and home insurance and still get great 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a boxer stance, ready to respond. we'll see what develops in the next few days. >> mattis was always cautiously optimistic about the talks. >> dana: what can you tell us about the medal of honor recipient that is going to be honored by the president moments from now? >> well, we sat down with him this week. master chief britt slabinski, 26-year navy veteran and member of the seal team six. he is being recognized for his actions on march 4, 2002, in operation anaconda. while trying to insert a seal team on top of takur ghar mountain to set up an observation post. the mission faced problems from the start. seven u.s. service members were killed. five on the rescue team sent in to extract the seals. the team helicopter was shot as it landed. petty officer neil roberts fell out of the helicopter which later crash landed. at that point, britt slabinski who was team leader took the difficult decision to return to the mountain top, knowing they were outgunned and out numbered. roberts, they believed, was still alive. a lot of heroics that day including the army special operations helicopter pilot a alan mack who volunteered to fly back in after the first helicopter took fire but there were a series of tragic events. >> dana: jennifer, why is this medal of honor more controversial than usual? >> well, the incident at what is now known as "roberts ridge" led to a lot of turn in the special ops community. the quick reaction force did not know two previous helicopters had been fired upon. there are questions about why slabinski broke military protocol and landed the helicopter on their objective rather than walk in. air force sergeant john chapman who returned to find navy seal roberts was shot immediately when they got out of the helicopter and left for dead. new evidence suggests he may have survivor and he is also up for the medal of honor. the failed operation led to recriminations in the special ops community they may have left someone behind. what is clear about the incident is there were mistakes made up and down the chain of command. the ceremony at the white house could close the chapter or open new wounds. we'll have our exclusive interview with britt slabinski, the latest medal of honor recipient tonight at 6:00 and 11:00 p.m. >> dana: all right, jennifer. thank you. meantime reaction is pouring in after yesterday's announcement that the nfl will require players to stand during the national anthem. but allow them to stay in the locker room if they want to opt out. president trump who has been critical of players kneeling approving of the new policy in an interview this morning on fox. >> president trump: well, you shouldn't be playing. you shouldn't be there. maybe you shouldn't in the country. you have to stand proudly for the national anthem and the nfl owners did the right thing. i think the people pushed it forward. this was not me. i brought it out. i think the people pushed it forward. >> dana: many players are critical of the new policy including seattle seahawks wide receiver doug baldwin. >> the nfl cares about one thing. that is the nfl. that is the nfl's bottom line. it just felt like again, there was a look of understanding. to me this just further punctuates the tone deafness or the disconnect between the nfl and its players. >> dana: that is the nfl decision. of course, we have more on that soon. president trump arriving in the east room where he will be overseeing the medal of honor recipient. we'll go to him now. >> almighty god we come before you on this special occasion from different backgrounds and cultures and expresses of faith toward you. but we all come as americans and those who love her. those who are sacrificed for her. who have bled for her. and who have died for her. today as we gather in our nation's most sacred home, we have the privilege to witness, to celebrate and to honor an extraordinary naval career and a life that has been set apart and called to service and devotion to this nation and those in it. today we are among the most privilege to watch as the nation's highest honor of special trust, achievement and fidelity is given and received from our nation's commander-in-chief to a leader of naval warriors who opinion was sought, who sacrifices were selfless and whose dedication to duty is unparalleled by any standard. today we lift up and honor our very own master chief britt slabinski as the nation's medal of honor betoed -- bestowed upon him. know the days he has given to the navy and the special warfare were value beyond measure. we as the fellow americans, brother and sister warriors, friends and family alike collectively ask for your blessing upon the great president, this great naval warrior, the great military families in all they do, have done and will continue to do from this day forward on the most solemn occasion, on this sacred ground we as the teammates say well done. finally whether swimming the depths, claiming the highest of mountains or soaring to the heavens as we walk the lonely road of faith, may you always go with you. in your holy name we pray, amen. >> president trump: thank you very much, chaplain. that's beautiful. and thank you to deputy secretary of defense patrick shanahan. thank you, patrick. under-secretary of the navy. thank you, thomas. v.a. secretary nominee, doing a fantastic job for us, robert wilkie. and congressman scott taylor and brian mast. thank you, fellas, very much. thank you. members of the armed forces and distinguished guests, please sit down. that actually worked out very nicely. join me in officially welcoming master chief britt slabinski to the white house. special man. truly brave person. today we pay tribute to britt's heroic service and we proudly present him with our nation's highest military honor. and i would go so far as to say our nation's highest honor. joining britt today is his son bryce. thank you very much. a rising senior at a wonderful school known to world as ohio state. great place. that is a great school. along with britt's sisters brenda, antika and brenda's husband tom. thank you for being here. here as well are britt's significant other christina and her two children john and megan, who we just met in the oval office. that is a special place, too. thank you all for joining us for this really special day and special ceremony. thank you very much. finally we are honored to be joined by several previous congressional medal of honor recipients. would you please stand? would you please stand? thank you. [applause] very, very special people. your names and your irmortal acts of valor -- immortal acts of valor engraverred in the memory of the nation. our nation will always be grateful to you. you know that. today we induct a new name into the world's most exclusive gathering of heroes. that is exactly what it is. britt was raised in northampton, massachusetts. he became an eagle scout by the age of 14. his father was a frogman in the underwater demolition group of the u.s. navy. tough people. while britt was if junior high, his dad brought him to their reunion. britt was inspired by their bond of friendship, their stories of service and their boundless love of country. as soon as he graduated from high school in 1988, britt enlisted in the navy to become a seal. that means he is a physically very strong person. and that also means that he is a mentally very strong person. that is tough. throughout the grueling months of training, britt proved himself every single step of the way. in 1990, he graduated the legendary buds training course and he earned that special badge worn only by the bravest few. the seal trident. he was called to operation enduring freedom in afghanistan in 2002. in the late evening hours of march 3, that year, he led an elite team on a combat mission to establish a secure position on the peak of a 10,000-foot mountain known as takur ghar. britt and his teammates were preparing to exit the helicopter on to the mountain when their aircraft was struck by a machine gun and machine gun fire like they have never seen before. and a rocket propelled grenade from al-qaeda terrorists down below. not a good feeling. as the helicopter lurched away from the assault, petty officer first class neil roberts was flung out of the aircraft. tremendous, tremendous horrible thing to witness. and onto the side of the mountain before the helicopter crashed into the valley below. after surviving barely the violent crash, britt and his team were retrieved by a second helicopter. also by the way, piloted by very brave people. at this point britt received information suggesting their comrade neil roberts, the man thrown out of the helicopter, was probably still alive. the team faced a choice to wait for reinforcements and pretty much safety or to return immediately to the enemy stronghold in the hope of saving neil's life. they would be outmanned, outgun and fighting uphill on a steep icy mountain. and every soldier knows you don't want to fight uphill. they learned that at gettysburg. you don't fight uphill. but they would face freezing temperatures and bitter winds at the highest altitude of battle in the history of the american military. this was the highest point where we ever fought. the odds were not good, they were not in their favor. but britt and his team didn't even hesitate for a moment. they made their decision. for them it was an easy one. they went back to that mountain. when the helicopter reached the mountain peak, they jumped out into a furious onslaught of machine gun fire. like none of them had ever seen before. britt and his teammate sergeant john chapman charged uphill toward the enemy, where john was shot after clearing a bunker. britt continued to engage the enemy. repeatedly exposing himself to horrendous fire. two of his other teammates, stephen turbo tobas and bret maganty suffered very, very serious leg injuries. britt hemped -- britt helped them to safety and called in air strikes as continuous fire drove them ever further down the face of the mountain. got worse and worse, more and more dangerous. he kept going. in a treacherous decent, britt and his men carried turbo through the snow. at one point they fashioned makeshift harness out of a gun strap to hoist turbo down a 13-foot cliff. in itself, treacherous, because if you miss that little area they go down the mountain. there is no toking them. when they could go no further britt tended to the wounded and coordinated his escape until his team was evacuated from enemy territory. serve of on -- seven of the brae men that fought with britt are here. maybe they will stand up. petty officer second class, bret morgante. dangerous place. way to go. chief warrant officer kyle soderberg. thank you, kyle. petty officer secretary class stephen tobas. thank you. chief warrant officer al mack. thank you. sergeant christopher cunningham. master sergeant eric stebner. master chief petty officer still on active duty is quietly not with us today. i just want to thank you all. unbelievable acts of bravery. thank you very much. [applause] thank you. thank you very much. incredible. today we also remember the brave soldiers who gave their lives on that mountain. technical sergeant john chapman. corporal matthew commons. specialist mark anderson. sergeant bradley cross. senior airman jason cunningham. technical sergeant phillip s povac and petty officer first class neil roberts who met a horrible death for whom the events are now down. it's called "the battle of roberts ridge." incredible event. to the gold star family members of those heros who are here today, please stand up. please stand up. [applause] please. >> president trump: it's an honor to have you accept our nation's profound sorrow and a deep love and everlasting gratitude. these were incredible, incredible men. and you can be proud that they were in your family and they are looking down right now and they are very, very proud of you. thank you very much. thank you for being here. thank you. to britt and to all of the men of robert's ridge, you waged a fierce fight against the enemy. and these really have become the enemies of america. and the enemies of all civilization. through your actions you demonstrated that there is no love more pure and no courage more great than the love and courage that burns in the hearts of american patriots. we are free because warriors like you are willing to give their sweat, their blood, and if they have to, their lives for our great nation. britt, you went on to serve many more years in the u.s. navy before finally retiring in 2014. today he continues his life of serving by volunteering with the navy seal foundation and on behalf of gold star families. special, special, incredible families. as one of his fellow service members testifies, he is an amazing father to bryce, who like his dad is now an eagle scout. britt wants the country to know that for him, the recognition he is about to receive is an honor that falls on the whole team. he wants you folks to know that. on the whole team. on every american warrior who fought the forces of terror on that snowy afghan ridge. each of them has entered the eternal chronicle of american valor and american bravery. britt, we salute you. we thank you. we thank god for making you a united states seal. we love our navy seals. they are very special, very incredible people. it's now my tremendous privilege to present to you the congressional medal of honor. and i'd like the military aide to come forward and please read the citation. thank you. >> the president of the united states in name of the congress takes pleasure in presenting the medal of honor to senior chief special warfare operator sea, air and land, britt k. slabinski, united states navy, for service as set forth in the following. for conspicuous gallontry assigned to a joint task force in support of operation enduring freedom. early morning of march 4, 2002, senior chief slabinski led a reconnance team to the assigned area atop a 10,000 foot snow-covered mountain. their insertion helicopter was suddenly riddled with rocket-propelled grenades and smalls arms fire from previously undetected enemy positions. the crippled helicoptered lurched violently and ejected one teammate on the mountain before the pilots were forced to crash land in the valley far below. senior chief slabinski boldly rallied his five remaining team members and marshaled supporting assets for an assault to rescue the stranded teammate. in the reinsertion the team came under fire from three directions. one teammate started moving uphill toward an enemy strong point. without regard for his own safety, senior chief slabinski charged directly toward enemy fire to join his teammate. together, they fearlessly assaulted and cleared the first bunker they encountered. the enemy then unleashed a hail of machine gun fire from a second hardened position only 20 meters away. senior chief slabinski repeatedly exposed himself to deadly fire, to personally engage the second enemy bunker and orient his team's fire in the furious, close quarters firefight. proximity made air support impossible. and after several teammates became casualties, the situation became untenable. senior chief slabinski maneuvered his team to a more defensible position, directed airstrikes in very close proximity to his team's position. and requested reinforcement. as daylight approached, accurate enemy mortar fire forced the team further down the mountain side. senior chief slabinski carried a seriously wounded teammate through deep snow and led a difficult trek across precipitous terrain calling in fire on the enemy which was engaging the team from the surrounding ridges. throughout the next 14 hours, senior chief slabinski stabilize casualties and continued the fight against the enemy until the hill was secured and his team was extracted. by his undaunted courage, bold initiative, leadership and devotion to duty, senior chief slabinski reflected great credit upon himself, and upheld the highest traditions of the united states naval service. [applause] >> as we close today, let us close with one final prayer. let us pray. almighty god, those of us who have had the privilege to witness this very special ceremony are reminded ones again we serve among the greatest of warriors, among the greatest of navies, within the greatest of nations. only because of the brave few who continue to raise their hand and the protection of this great nation and those in it, from those who wished us harm. men as our very own master chief britt slabinski who personifies the cherish of virtues we all strive for, which is courage. courage for when the moment comes and we look into the abyss. and we promise ourselves and others on our honor to do our best, to do our duty, for god and for our country and in so doing forge an unbreakable bond in the heat of battle in the furnace of affliction, which strengthens molds and galvanizes that bond only to come forth as pure gold. in this case, gold in the form of a naval trident. as we close this ceremony today may master chief slabinski take with him the certainty of knowing in the days spent in service to this nation and the pursuit of freedom for all were a value beyond measure, as well as those virtues and values which delivered him to this very moment. may it never be far from our thoughts. the price that he and many others have paid in the pursuit of that free dom and -- freedom and may the inspiration be breathed to each one of us and live in generations to follow, topaz brother and sister warriors, teammate and friends and family of the naval warfare as we wish our teammate and his family godspeed. in our holy name we pray, amen. >> ladies and gentlemen, please remain in your seat until the president has departed. >> dana: what an amazing, moving ceremony today honoring retired navy seal britt slabinski. with the congressional medal of with the congressional medical of honor, the highest honor he could get. i'm joined by michael meehan, and collin reid. we were going to have a debate about politics, but we're not going to do that. there's a special connection. not just the united states celebrating britt slabinski today, but massachusetts and both of you are from massachusetts. i'll let you say a few words in the minute or so we have left. collin, i'll start with you. >> in a city that is too often filled with ranker and insults, it's nice to see that. it was just a nice moment. >> amazing, too, michael when you think -- you were headed into memorial day weekend where we remember the people that served our country and gave the ultimate sacrifice. it's appropriate to honor somebody like britt slabinski that tried to save their lives. your thoughts. >> born and raised in massachusetts like the navy seal, 250 years ago, massachusetts was the home of the original patriot. great to see him being honored in such a way. >> we'll have you back to talk politics. today, not time for that. a reminder, jennifer griffin's interview with britt slabinski airs on "special report" at 6:00 p.m. thanks for joining us. i'm dana perino. trace gallagher is in for shepard smith. he'll have more? just a moment. >> trace: president trump calling after his meeting with kim jong-un. >> i decided to terminate the summit june 12. >> trace: ahead, the reaction. what happens now. did north korea actually ghost us? house and senate lawmaker in a meeting with officials. and the president talking about a spy. so today an attempt to learn the truth. the white house debating whether to slap new taxes on foreign car imports. could have a major impacted on american car companies and their workers. we'll see how wall street is
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